{"id":4384,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4384"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:47:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:47:39","slug":"north-of-the-border","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/n-poems\/north-of-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"North of the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> North of the Border<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 20, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nFrom the soft green border country to the hard grey mountain tops<br \/>\nHerds of black and red horned cattle odd shaped fields of soft food crops<br \/>\nHave you eaten Arbroath smokies with a whisky on the side<br \/>\nOr watched whale sharks off the West coast on an idle summer tide<\/p>\n<p>In the dreary granite cities there are faces hard as stone<br \/>\nHiding hearts as warm as heather (where the haggises are grown)<br \/>\nThere are Engineers in Glasgow there&#8217;s an Edinburgh fringe<br \/>\nIf you talk about goalkeepers you can feel the nation cringe<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been skiing there in summer I&#8217;ve sat worshipping the sun<br \/>\nThere are rocks that haven&#8217;t changed there since the sparks of life begun<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t sum up all of Scotland in a poem or a book<br \/>\nIf you want to know the country you will have to go and look!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North of the Border by cricketjeff on January 20, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved From the soft green border country to the hard grey mountain tops Herds of black and red horned cattle odd shaped fields of soft food crops Have you eaten Arbroath smokies with a whisky on the side Or watched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9730,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4384","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4384","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=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7122,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4384\/revisions\/7122"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}