{"id":4350,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4350"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-upside-of-dirt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-upside-of-dirt\/","title":{"rendered":"The upside of dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The upside of dirt<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 6, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/113_Constable.jpg]<\/p>\n<p>The talents of some artists are a dream,<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s art to see wherever people are.<br \/>\nA muddy windscreen&#8217;s not what it may seem,<br \/>\n&#8220;The Haywain&#8221; in a very dirty car.<\/p>\n<p>A Mini or a Roller can display<br \/>\nThe image of a well known masterpiece.<br \/>\nA dusty road has something it must say;<br \/>\nAn artist gave frustrated dirt release.<\/p>\n<p>How did this very strange obsession start?<br \/>\nI&#8217;d never see pure beauty in a mess.<br \/>\nIt takes a crazy man to find the art<br \/>\nIn any car-proud motorist&#8217;s distress.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday carwash crew should take a break<br \/>\nThat coat of wax may be a sad mistake!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA Shakespearean sonnet inspired by the image and the others on this site http:\/<br \/>\n\/www.dirtycarart.com\/DCAGallery\/index.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upside of dirt by cricketjeff on January 6, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/113_Constable.jpg] The talents of some artists are a dream, There&#8217;s art to see wherever people are. A muddy windscreen&#8217;s not what it may seem, &#8220;The Haywain&#8221; in a very dirty car. A Mini or a Roller can display 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-4350","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4350","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=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7158,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4350\/revisions\/7158"}],"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=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}