{"id":4449,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4449"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","slug":"how-old","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/h-poems\/how-old\/","title":{"rendered":"How old?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> How old?<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 24, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t really notice as the years went fizzing by,<br \/>\nToo busy raising kids to ride the wave.<br \/>\nI found that I was fifty and I hadn&#8217;t learnt to fly.<br \/>\nJust thirty years of working like a slave.<\/p>\n<p>I put a pen to paper and I found that I could write,<br \/>\nThat words could be a metaphor for life.<br \/>\nI found a group of friends who thought that I could shed some light<br \/>\nOn silly little games and major strife.<\/p>\n<p>And now I hear the music in the sunset and the dawn,<br \/>\nThe silver songs the Moon sings to the stars.<br \/>\nI look for words that colour in the sketch my life has drawn,<br \/>\nThe drumbeat that accompanies guitars.<\/p>\n<p>Is fifty nearly old enough to see a different way<br \/>\nOr is it really young enough to get out there and play!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How old? by cricketjeff on February 24, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I didn&#8217;t really notice as the years went fizzing by, Too busy raising kids to ride the wave. I found that I was fifty and I hadn&#8217;t learnt to fly. Just thirty years of working like a slave. I put a [&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-4449","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4449","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=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7059,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4449\/revisions\/7059"}],"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=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}