{"id":4288,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4288"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","slug":"timbuktu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/timbuktu\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbuktu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Timbuktu<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 1, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhen Timbuktu was fine and great<br \/>\nThe centre of a mighty state<br \/>\nTrue scholars came across the sea<br \/>\nTo join Its University<\/p>\n<p>But now it&#8217;s just a dusty town<br \/>\nDressed in its mediaeval frown<br \/>\nA famous name but nothing more<br \/>\nFor now the state is sad and poor<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve hatched a plan to resurrect<br \/>\nTheir international respect<br \/>\nA centre where the World can see<br \/>\nThe treasures from their history<\/p>\n<p>Will tourists tread that dusty road<br \/>\nWhere ancient wisdom freely flowed<br \/>\nAnd will the Timbuktuans know<br \/>\nThe wealth they gathered long ago<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI read a news article about plans to make the literary treasures of the famous<br \/>\nMalian city available to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timbuktu by cricketjeff on December 1, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved When Timbuktu was fine and great The centre of a mighty state True scholars came across the sea To join Its University But now it&#8217;s just a dusty town Dressed in its mediaeval frown A famous name but nothing more For now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4288","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4288","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=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7220,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4288\/revisions\/7220"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}