{"id":4131,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4131"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","slug":"homeless","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/h-poems\/homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Homeless<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 15, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nHe sat each night and waited for a chance<br \/>\nThe shelter&#8217;s only three pounds for the night<br \/>\nSo many passed without a second glance<br \/>\nBut every time his smile is so polite<\/p>\n<p>My friend was late so I had time to kill<br \/>\nI watched him sit and ask a little change<br \/>\nHe had an empty look, a space to fill<br \/>\nSometimes a change is easy to arrange<\/p>\n<p>Before we left to eat a little bit<br \/>\nThe night was cold and rain was in the air<br \/>\nAnd twenty pounds can&#8217;t change my life one whit<br \/>\nA life is not a life if we can&#8217;t share<\/p>\n<p>Much later I was walking for the train<br \/>\nA fuller looking man began to speak<br \/>\nHe said he had to thank me once again<br \/>\nAnd show a hostel pass bought for the week<\/p>\n<p>I hope he found a way back to his feet<br \/>\nAnd on the train his thank-you tasted sweet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeless by cricketjeff on September 15, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved He sat each night and waited for a chance The shelter&#8217;s only three pounds for the night So many passed without a second glance But every time his smile is so polite My friend was late so I had time to kill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9706,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4131","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=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7376,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4131\/revisions\/7376"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}