{"id":4262,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4262"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-wrong-side","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-wrong-side\/","title":{"rendered":"The wrong side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The wrong side<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 20, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe World&#8217;s a hard and unforgiving place<br \/>\nFor those who walk down some ill tended roads<br \/>\nThere are some truths impossible to face<br \/>\nSome folk must bear the heaviest of loads<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t do more than give a child the best<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t kiss every injury away<br \/>\nYou show them love and hope they&#8217;ll learn the rest<br \/>\nBut other voices often have their say<\/p>\n<p>If you have gods you pray to understand<br \/>\nIf not you have to find it out alone<br \/>\nThe life we lead&#8217;s not pre-ordained or planned<br \/>\nYou plant the seeds but can&#8217;t control what&#8217;s grown<\/p>\n<p>The best advice seems far too trite and thin<br \/>\nTo love the sinner while you hate the sin<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA friend of a very close friend found out that the grandson she raised<br \/>\ncommitted a gang related murder after leaving to be with his mother.<\/p>\n<p>Child on child violence, and at 16 or 17 they are still children is so<br \/>\nshockingly painful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wrong side by cricketjeff on November 20, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The World&#8217;s a hard and unforgiving place For those who walk down some ill tended roads There are some truths impossible to face Some folk must bear the heaviest of loads You can&#8217;t do more than give a child the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4262","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4262","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=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7247,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4262\/revisions\/7247"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}