{"id":3935,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3935"},"modified":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","slug":"cricket-on-a-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/c-poems\/cricket-on-a-friday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket on a Friday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Cricket on a Friday night<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 19, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe summer evening sun&#8217;s in slow decline<br \/>\nAnd spreading golden fingers though the trees<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sitting watching cricket drinking wine<br \/>\nA Friday night is made for taking ease<\/p>\n<p>The trails of clouds are turning slowly peach<br \/>\nAnd sparrows gather watching nature paint<br \/>\nWest Indies think Sri Lanka&#8217;s score&#8217;s in reach<br \/>\nIf Gayle can cast aside the harsh restraint<\/p>\n<p>The buddleia, alive with silent bees,<br \/>\nIs gently rapping on the window pane<br \/>\nWest Indies now seem lost in raging seas<br \/>\nTheir followers see hope slide down the drain<\/p>\n<p>The wine is gone, the cricket nearly done<br \/>\nSri Lanka&#8217;s bowlers busy having fun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket on a Friday night by cricketjeff on June 19, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The summer evening sun&#8217;s in slow decline And spreading golden fingers though the trees I&#8217;m sitting watching cricket drinking wine A Friday night is made for taking ease The trails of clouds are turning slowly peach And sparrows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9696,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3935","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7573,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3935\/revisions\/7573"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}