{"id":4009,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4009"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","slug":"the-ride-of-her-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-ride-of-her-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ride of Her Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Ride of Her Life<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 20, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Artwork by Kristina Gehrmann]<\/p>\n<p>She rode like the wind when death came calling<br \/>\nFleeing from scenes she did not understand<br \/>\nThe visions were black and the screams were appalling<br \/>\nThe future was stripped by his skeletal hand<\/p>\n<p>Pestilence tore at the gates of the living<br \/>\nDiseases destroyed those who stood in the way<br \/>\nThe horsemen of doom are not kind and forgiving<br \/>\nBringing an end to the deeds of the day<\/p>\n<p>Faster she rode from the clutches of Hades<br \/>\nOut of the path of the riders of fate<br \/>\nDeath was to harvest the Lords and the Ladies<br \/>\nLeft to its work on the good and the great<\/p>\n<p>Fast past the Moon She would ride until morning<br \/>\nOnly the sun can bring hope from despair<br \/>\nHer face will erupt from the sapphire blue awning<br \/>\nPeace and tranquility fall through the air<\/p>\n<p>Night after night she must drive ever harder<br \/>\nFarther and farther away from her past<br \/>\nHolding to life with an unending ardour<br \/>\nSurely today will bring safety at last!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nartwork by Kristina Gehrmann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ride of Her Life by cricketjeff on July 20, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Artwork by Kristina Gehrmann] She rode like the wind when death came calling Fleeing from scenes she did not understand The visions were black and the screams were appalling The future was stripped by his skeletal hand Pestilence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4009","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4009","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=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7499,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4009\/revisions\/7499"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}