{"id":4221,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4221"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","slug":"perseverence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/perseverence\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseverence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Perseverence<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 29, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nEvery Sunday<br \/>\nhe stands hot in the sun<br \/>\ndrowned as a fish in the rain<br \/>\nto explain the World.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing the answer<br \/>\nhas been his terrible burden<br \/>\nfor almost fifty years.<br \/>\nFifty two times a year<br \/>\nfor forty nine years<br \/>\nand nothing has changed.<br \/>\nNo-one has been saved<br \/>\nno-one has learnt his truth;<br \/>\nbut this week will be different.<\/p>\n<p>His well worn wooden box<br \/>\nand tatty placard,<br \/>\nhis pulpit,<br \/>\nwill attract the crowd today<br \/>\nthey will finally understand<br \/>\nand the World will be a better place.<\/p>\n<p>His wife gives him his lunch,<br \/>\na flask of tea<br \/>\nand a kiss.<\/p>\n<p>The crowds don&#8217;t even give him<br \/>\nthe time of day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perseverence by cricketjeff on October 29, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Every Sunday he stands hot in the sun drowned as a fish in the rain to explain the World. Knowing the answer has been his terrible burden for almost fifty years. Fifty two times a year for forty nine years and nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9734,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4221","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4221","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=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7287,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4221\/revisions\/7287"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}