{"id":4210,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4210"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:50:49","slug":"of-kites-and-colour-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/o-poems\/of-kites-and-colour-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Of kites and colour change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Of kites and colour change<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 23, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/785Y0696net.jpg]<\/p>\n<p>Today I watched the turning of the trees<br \/>\nWith red kites soaring high across the skies<br \/>\nMagnificently sailing on the breeze<br \/>\nAnd keeping all of England in their eyes<\/p>\n<p>I listened to the rustle of the leaves<br \/>\nAnd heard the pretty_calling_of_the_kites<br \/>\nThe touch of gold an autumn tree receives<br \/>\nIs truly one of nature&#8217;s great delights<\/p>\n<p>The turning leaves are measures of the year<br \/>\nReturning kites are measures of our age<br \/>\nThe beauty we once massacred through fear<br \/>\nReturns to take its place on centre stage<\/p>\n<p>How do we seem to kites above the town<br \/>\nWhen autumn trees are slowly turning brown<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe photo of the red kite is courtesy of www.naturealbums.com and is by and<br \/>\ncopyright Necip Perver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of kites and colour change by cricketjeff on October 23, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/785Y0696net.jpg] Today I watched the turning of the trees With red kites soaring high across the skies Magnificently sailing on the breeze And keeping all of England in their eyes I listened to the rustle of the leaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4210","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4210","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=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7299,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4210\/revisions\/7299"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}