{"id":3952,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3952"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"in-a-passing-idle-moment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/in-a-passing-idle-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Passing Idle Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In a Passing Idle Moment<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 25, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn a passing idle moment I was drawn to think of you,<br \/>\nAnd a smile of gentle loving temped blue tits into view.<br \/>\nThen the song thrush, on the fencepost, started singing me delight<br \/>\nCausing sparrows in the holly to give up their latest fight.<\/p>\n<p>Overhead the swifts and swallows started dancing through the air,<br \/>\nAs I thought of soft embraces breathing passion through your hair.<br \/>\nIn the pond a swarm of tadpoles swam about in serried ranks,<br \/>\nWhile a pair of stripy beetles hunted lunch along the banks.<\/p>\n<p>I had berries for the picking and some roses for the scent,<br \/>\nGarden birds for entertainment, and I knew I was content.<br \/>\nSuch a perfect day in summer, Mother Nature&#8217;s best on view;<br \/>\nIn a passing idle moment I was drawn to think of you.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA blue tit &#8230;<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/54151593.html]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Passing Idle Moment by cricketjeff on June 25, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In a passing idle moment I was drawn to think of you, And a smile of gentle loving temped blue tits into view. Then the song thrush, on the fencepost, started singing me delight Causing sparrows in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3952","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3952","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=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7556,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3952\/revisions\/7556"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}