{"id":4056,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4056"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-english-weather","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-english-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"The English Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The English Weather<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 13, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe English weather&#8217;s really not my friend<br \/>\nAt cricket there was rain before the end<br \/>\nThe day before and then today the sun was high and hot<br \/>\nBut in between the weather went to pot<\/p>\n<p>The English weather never gets it right<br \/>\nI slave away throughout the heatwave&#8217;s height<br \/>\nAnd then I get a day or two to live my life my way<br \/>\nAnd overhead the skies are cold and grey<\/p>\n<p>The English weather treats we English wrong<br \/>\nShe gives us gifts to string us all along<br \/>\nAnd then we take the trouble to enjoy her finest treat<br \/>\nAnd sit and watch a snowscape turn to sleet<\/p>\n<p>The English weather knows a balmy breeze<br \/>\nThat ruffles brand new leaflets in the trees<br \/>\nBut when you think of kiting then the breeze becomes a gale<br \/>\nAnd pretty April showers will turn to hail<\/p>\n<p>The English weather never tells it true<br \/>\nThe forecast rain may not arrive on cue<br \/>\nOn days you thought you&#8217;d huddle in a kagoule getting wet<br \/>\nYou sunbathe in a London park the finest summer yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English Weather by cricketjeff on August 13, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The English weather&#8217;s really not my friend At cricket there was rain before the end The day before and then today the sun was high and hot But in between the weather went to pot The English weather never gets [&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-4056","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4056","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=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7451,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4056\/revisions\/7451"}],"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=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}