{"id":4218,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4218"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","slug":"after-the-clocks-go-back","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/after-the-clocks-go-back\/","title":{"rendered":"After the clocks go back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> After the clocks go back<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 27, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI&#8217;m walking home in darkness cursing queues of noisome cars<br \/>\nAll filled with workers wanting to be gone<br \/>\nAbove us there&#8217;s a silver moon and sprinklings of stars<br \/>\nThe night has put her finest jewellery on<\/p>\n<p>A gentle breeze makes mischief stripping trees of golden leaves<br \/>\nTo make a crunching carpet for my feet<br \/>\nWhile flashing lights of aircraft seem like fairy make-believes<br \/>\nA fantasy played out along the street<\/p>\n<p>A solid wall of silence as I turn to cross the park<br \/>\nToo little light for dogs to chase a ball<br \/>\nBut teenage boys are hopeful of a cuddle after dark<br \/>\nThe girls they&#8217;re with are not impressed at all<\/p>\n<p>The streetlights play with shadows that arrive then disappear<br \/>\nFour insubstantial echoes of the seasons of the year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the clocks go back by cricketjeff on October 27, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I&#8217;m walking home in darkness cursing queues of noisome cars All filled with workers wanting to be gone Above us there&#8217;s a silver moon and sprinklings of stars The night has put her finest jewellery on A gentle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4218","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4218","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=4218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7290,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4218\/revisions\/7290"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}