{"id":4049,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4049"},"modified":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","slug":"chilly-evenings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/c-poems\/chilly-evenings\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilly evenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Chilly evenings<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 9, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nOn chilly evenings after sunny days<br \/>\nWhen swifts and swallows sweep on flies to eat<br \/>\nWe stare amazed at aerial displays<br \/>\nBy birds whose mastery appears complete<\/p>\n<p>The starling swarms make patterns in the sky<br \/>\nSuch swirling shapes I find I cannot write<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s nature&#8217;s way to bid the day goodbye<br \/>\nAnd welcome in the silver moonlit night<\/p>\n<p>And you and I should cuddle from the chill<br \/>\nA glass or two will warm a lover&#8217;s heart<br \/>\nI know that I could never drink my fill<br \/>\nOf such an evening brew of unmade art<\/p>\n<p>And as the light decays and stars arrive<br \/>\nQuite suddenly I&#8217;m glad that I&#8217;m alive<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a sonnet, innit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chilly evenings by cricketjeff on August 9, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved On chilly evenings after sunny days When swifts and swallows sweep on flies to eat We stare amazed at aerial displays By birds whose mastery appears complete The starling swarms make patterns in the sky Such swirling shapes I find I [&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-4049","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4049","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=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7457,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4049\/revisions\/7457"}],"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=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}