{"id":4244,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4244"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","slug":"beat-the-block","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/b-poems\/beat-the-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat the Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Beat the Block<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 10, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nMy recipe for writer&#8217;s block<br \/>\nIs give the bloody curse a shock<br \/>\nThough every thought you have&#8217;s a crock<br \/>\nJust write it<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t have to let the other&#8217;s see<br \/>\nBut you must fight the misery<br \/>\nThough it&#8217;s as trite as ABC<br \/>\nStill write it<\/p>\n<p>Retell the tale of Peter Pan<br \/>\nOr write about the bogey man<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t think about a story plan<br \/>\nJust write it<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not a thought that you can use<br \/>\nNo tiny spark you won&#8217;t refuse<br \/>\nPile dynamite beneath your muse<br \/>\nIgnite it<\/p>\n<p>A list of things you need to buy<br \/>\nA list of games you want to try<br \/>\nOr trash that makes you wonder why<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d write it<\/p>\n<p>The only way to beat this curse<br \/>\nIs write some prose or write some verse<br \/>\nA Limerick or something worse<br \/>\nJust write it<\/p>\n<p>Soon thoughts to write will form a queue<br \/>\nJust pick the one that&#8217;s fresh and new<br \/>\nThen do that thing you love to do<br \/>\nAND WRITE IT!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beat the Block by cricketjeff on November 10, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved My recipe for writer&#8217;s block Is give the bloody curse a shock Though every thought you have&#8217;s a crock Just write it Don&#8217;t have to let the other&#8217;s see But you must fight the misery Though it&#8217;s as trite as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4244","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=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7264,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4244\/revisions\/7264"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}