{"id":4054,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4054"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-brighter-side","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-brighter-side\/","title":{"rendered":"The brighter side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The brighter side<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 11, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWho stands to gain from all this rain<br \/>\nFrom grey and dreary days<br \/>\nWho wants it wet then wetter yet<br \/>\nWhy does it suit his ways<br \/>\nI&#8217;m off to see at half past three<br \/>\nA day night cricket game<br \/>\nThe prospect&#8217;s bleak for play this week<br \/>\nBut just who should I blame?<br \/>\nNo thund&#8217;rous strokes from skilful blokes<br \/>\nIf rain goes pitter pat<br \/>\nJust sit in stands with tea in hands<br \/>\nAnd lots of cricket chat<br \/>\nSo why today must rain gods play<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll keep my fingers crossed<br \/>\nFor clouds to ease and drying breeze<br \/>\nTo see that all&#8217;s not lost<br \/>\nA day off work and chance to shirk<br \/>\nAnd there&#8217;s a brighter side<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s quite good news my team won&#8217;t lose<br \/>\nIf chance of play&#8217;s denied<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brighter side by cricketjeff on August 11, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Who stands to gain from all this rain From grey and dreary days Who wants it wet then wetter yet Why does it suit his ways I&#8217;m off to see at half past three A day night cricket game The [&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-4054","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4054","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=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7453,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4054\/revisions\/7453"}],"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=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}