{"id":4301,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4301"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:50:49","slug":"off-days","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/o-poems\/off-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Off days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Off days<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 8, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nHave you ever had a day when simply everything goes wrong<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s off to Hell at high speed and it&#8217;s dragging you along<br \/>\nOvernight a simple problem grew one hundred thousand fold<br \/>\nAnd the people who could help will not do what they are told<br \/>\nWhen you find yourself in Pompeii and today&#8217;s volcano day<br \/>\nDo you wish you were a wizard who could wish it all away<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever found the contents weren&#8217;t the equal of the box<br \/>\nHad a present that consisted of mismatched and odd sized socks<br \/>\nFound the spanner that you ordered fits another size of nut<br \/>\nAnd your rushing at a brickwall with your wheels stuck in a rut<br \/>\nWhen you find the monsoons started and you&#8217;re out without a hat<br \/>\nDo you wish you were a wizard who could end it all like that<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever started writing and forgotten how to rhyme<br \/>\nSeen a friend you&#8217;ve missed for ages but you haven&#8217;t got the time<br \/>\nWoken up to welcome Sunday, found that Monday&#8217;s there instead<br \/>\nSpent the whole day getting nowhere when you could have stayed in bed<br \/>\nWhen the only one you&#8217;re wanting&#8217;s living half the world away<br \/>\nDo you wish you were a wizard who could fly to her and stay!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI had one of those days!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off days by cricketjeff on December 8, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Have you ever had a day when simply everything goes wrong It&#8217;s off to Hell at high speed and it&#8217;s dragging you along Overnight a simple problem grew one hundred thousand fold And the people who could help will not do [&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-4301","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4301","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=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7207,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4301\/revisions\/7207"}],"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=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}