{"id":4286,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4286"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","slug":"herakleion-and-canopus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/h-poems\/herakleion-and-canopus\/","title":{"rendered":"Herakleion and Canopus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Herakleion and Canopus<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 30, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nHerakleion and Canopus, looked proudly out to sea<br \/>\nTwo cities famed as beauties far and wide<br \/>\nTheir temples and their libraries examples to the free<br \/>\nTheir wealth and power could not be denied<br \/>\nYet now no people walk their streets they&#8217;re cities of the deep<br \/>\nWhen Mother Earth had had enough she put them both to sleep<\/p>\n<p>The people prayed to many gods and thought they were secure<br \/>\nThe mighty Nile brought trade and not despair<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure their priests were honest men told all they should be pure<br \/>\nBut seas and rivers simply aren&#8217;t aware<br \/>\nSo now no people go to pray in temples under waves<br \/>\nWhen rivers move men don&#8217;t approve but praying seldom saves<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s divers now who see the sights that once were there for all<br \/>\nAs fish and crabs now own the homes of men<br \/>\nThe arrogance of ancient Kings was leading to a fall<br \/>\nWho can&#8217;t believe we&#8217;ll see this tale again<br \/>\nWe warm our World with CO2 and soon enough there&#8217;ll be<br \/>\nMore cities built by mighty men asleep beneath the sea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herakleion and Canopus by cricketjeff on November 30, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Herakleion and Canopus, looked proudly out to sea Two cities famed as beauties far and wide Their temples and their libraries examples to the free Their wealth and power could not be denied Yet now no people walk their streets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9706,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4286","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4286","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=4286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7222,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4286\/revisions\/7222"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}