{"id":4249,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4249"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","slug":"outside-the-box","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/o-poems\/outside-the-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside the box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Outside the box<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 13, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe regimented orthodox<br \/>\nDemand I write outside the box.<br \/>\nSuch arrogance to think that they can know.<br \/>\nThey seem to say, in sad clich\u00e9,<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ve heard my thoughts before today<br \/>\nAnd now dismiss the poetry on show.<\/p>\n<p>I know no frame that should constrain<br \/>\nAn agile poet&#8217;s restless brain;<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll write my lines ignoring their concern.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s still so much that can be said<br \/>\nOn subjects they consider dead,<br \/>\nPerhaps one day they&#8217;ll see the World and learn.<\/p>\n<p>The addle-headed modernist<br \/>\nIs always free, he will insist,<br \/>\nHis anarchy is just a set of rules.<br \/>\nConvention suits me very well<br \/>\nSo box-destroyers go to hell.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re just another set of bloody fools!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI just HATE being told to write outside the box<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/grin.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside the box by cricketjeff on November 13, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The regimented orthodox Demand I write outside the box. Such arrogance to think that they can know. They seem to say, in sad clich\u00e9, They&#8217;ve heard my thoughts before today And now dismiss the poetry on show. I know no [&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-4249","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4249","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=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7259,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4249\/revisions\/7259"}],"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=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}