{"id":4101,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4101"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","slug":"patchwork-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/patchwork-of-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Patchwork of my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Patchwork of my life<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 3, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI was born a clean white bedspread without patterns on each side<br \/>\nAnd my life has been a kind of quilting bee<br \/>\nEvery day another section from the fabric life supplied<br \/>\nWent towards the patchwork quilt I see as me<\/p>\n<p>There is stitch-work by my mother, and my father found the thread<br \/>\nThat my friends could use to add each extra square<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll keep on adding textures till the day I wake up dead<br \/>\nThere are blocks within my quilt from everywhere<\/p>\n<p>Every word I read is in there, every poem every book<br \/>\nAll my friends, and yes my lovers, gave their art<br \/>\nThere are parts that I keep hidden, at the rest you&#8217;re free to look<br \/>\nOr sit down with me and add another part<\/p>\n<p>All of us are busy quilting adding depth to who we are<br \/>\nMaking art to show the tourists at eternity&#8217;s bazaar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patchwork of my life by cricketjeff on September 3, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I was born a clean white bedspread without patterns on each side And my life has been a kind of quilting bee Every day another section from the fabric life supplied Went towards the patchwork quilt I see as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9734,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4101","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=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7407,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4101\/revisions\/7407"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}