{"id":4455,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4455"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","slug":"bucking-the-trend","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/b-poems\/bucking-the-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucking the Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Bucking the Trend<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 27, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIt seems to be a universal truth,<br \/>\nThat bastards win the game and get the girl.<br \/>\nThe world revolves around the most uncouth<br \/>\nA bigger bonus for the basest churl.<\/p>\n<p>The nicer guy may have the greater skill,<br \/>\nThe more polite may know the shorter cut<br \/>\nBut cheating oafs will finish winning still;<br \/>\nThe doors of life for us are firmly shut.<\/p>\n<p>No good deed goes unpunished, so they say,<br \/>\nBut nuts to that, I rather like me nice.<br \/>\nI know that there&#8217;s a proper way to play<br \/>\nI&#8217;m happy choosing virtue over vice.<\/p>\n<p>And I still win the prize, once in a while,<br \/>\nEach little victory is worth a smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bucking the Trend by cricketjeff on February 27, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved It seems to be a universal truth, That bastards win the game and get the girl. The world revolves around the most uncouth A bigger bonus for the basest churl. The nicer guy may have the greater skill, The more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4455","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4455","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=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7054,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4455\/revisions\/7054"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}