{"id":4457,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4457"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:47:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:47:39","slug":"night-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/n-poems\/night-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Night Thoughts<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 28, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nSo far away, who&#8217;s looking back at me,<br \/>\nWhen I stand out beneath the stars at night?<br \/>\nA million million worlds are there to see,<br \/>\nEach represented by a point of light.<\/p>\n<p>Do poets stand beneath those other skies?<br \/>\nTheir suns and moons the gods of other men?<br \/>\nAre loves revealed in alien looking eyes,<br \/>\nAnd written down by other types of pen?<\/p>\n<p>The scene they see&#8217;s a die already cast,<br \/>\nThe laws of time are ruthlessly applied.<br \/>\nThe stars we see are echoes from the past,<br \/>\nTheir light is old, these lovers must have died.<\/p>\n<p>But stars shine on, they aren&#8217;t the least concerned,<br \/>\nTheir beauty far outshines the truths we&#8217;ve learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night Thoughts by cricketjeff on February 28, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved So far away, who&#8217;s looking back at me, When I stand out beneath the stars at night? A million million worlds are there to see, Each represented by a point of light. Do poets stand beneath those other skies? Their suns [&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-4457","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4457","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=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7051,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4457\/revisions\/7051"}],"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=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}