{"id":4206,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4206"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-workaday-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-workaday-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Workaday World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Workaday World<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 20, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe nagging phone demands my ear<br \/>\nThe screen controls my eyes<br \/>\nA system change before New Year<br \/>\nA manual to revise<\/p>\n<p>And somewhere there&#8217;s a golden beach<br \/>\nWith gentle ocean breeze<br \/>\nA well stocked bar is just in reach<br \/>\nBeneath a stand of trees<\/p>\n<p>The clean-up script has failed to clean<br \/>\nThe run was error filled<br \/>\nNo drivers for the new machine<br \/>\nTwo zombies can&#8217;t be killed<\/p>\n<p>A soft green mountain wrapped in cloud<br \/>\nAnd streaked with talking streams<br \/>\nWhere talk of work is not allowed<br \/>\nAnd days are made of dreams<\/p>\n<p>Please help us with this questionnaire,<br \/>\n&#8220;How helpful was our call&#8221;<br \/>\nOpinions I don&#8217;t care to share<br \/>\n&#8220;No bloody use at all!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A clearing in an ancient wood<br \/>\nLie still and watch the deer<br \/>\nThe rabbits of this neighbourhood<br \/>\nAppear to know no fear<\/p>\n<p>You want to meet about the plan<br \/>\nAn hour at half-past-two?<br \/>\nGet Peter and the guy called Stan<br \/>\nAs well as me and you.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s somewhere else I&#8217;d rather go<br \/>\nA better place to be<br \/>\nAnd there I&#8217;ll find just one I know<br \/>\nFor perfect company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Workaday World by cricketjeff on October 20, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The nagging phone demands my ear The screen controls my eyes A system change before New Year A manual to revise And somewhere there&#8217;s a golden beach With gentle ocean breeze A well stocked bar is just in reach Beneath [&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-4206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4206","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=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7302,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4206\/revisions\/7302"}],"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=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}