{"id":4150,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4150"},"modified":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","slug":"consequences-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/c-poems\/consequences-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Consequences<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 23, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA moment&#8217;s inattention and you see the aftermath<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I&#8217;ve softly wrinkled fingertips and toes<br \/>\nI closed my eyes and found that I was sleeping in the bath<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 That&#8217;s not at all unusual I suppose<\/p>\n<p>I lay down with some problems that my mind was sorting through<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And rubbed the shampoo suds into my hair<br \/>\nIn half another moment I would know just what to do<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 But suddenly I found I wasn&#8217;t there<\/p>\n<p>You whispered love into my ear and waltzed into my heart<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I held you in my arms and kissed your lips<br \/>\nThe World stood still and waited while we flirted with the art<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Of drawing sweet conclusions through the drips<\/p>\n<p>Then I awoke to no-one but my softly wrinkled skin<br \/>\nAnd deep inside the feeling life&#8217;s a game I cannot win<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nI fell asleep in the bath!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consequences by cricketjeff on September 23, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A moment&#8217;s inattention and you see the aftermath \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I&#8217;ve softly wrinkled fingertips and toes I closed my eyes and found that I was sleeping in the bath \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 That&#8217;s not at all unusual I suppose I lay [&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-4150","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4150","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=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7357,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4150\/revisions\/7357"}],"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=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}