{"id":4483,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4483"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","slug":"the-scottish-sonnet-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-scottish-sonnet-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scottish Sonnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Scottish Sonnet<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 12, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThree sisters casting fortunes on the heath<br \/>\nMacbeth and Banquo chance upon the scene<br \/>\nMacbeth&#8217;s ambition gives their words some teeth<br \/>\nThe Scottish crown cast deep in a ravine<\/p>\n<p>A dagger hangs before the villain&#8217;s eyes<br \/>\nA spectre of the act he will perform<br \/>\nThe sleeping king is slaughtered where he lies<br \/>\nThe castle rocked beneath a dreadful storm<\/p>\n<p>Macbeth is crowned but soon his crown has slipped<br \/>\nAnd Banquo&#8217;s ghost appears to tell him so<br \/>\nMacduff, not born, but from his mother ripped<br \/>\nArrives to force the regicide to go<\/p>\n<p>The tale of kings each cursed a different way<br \/>\nRetold in Shakespeare&#8217;s most accursed play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Sonnet by cricketjeff on March 12, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Three sisters casting fortunes on the heath Macbeth and Banquo chance upon the scene Macbeth&#8217;s ambition gives their words some teeth The Scottish crown cast deep in a ravine A dagger hangs before the villain&#8217;s eyes A spectre of 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-4483","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4483","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=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7025,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4483\/revisions\/7025"}],"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=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}