{"id":4506,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4506"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:00","slug":"i-may-be-going-mad-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/i-may-be-going-mad-i-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"I may be going mad I guess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I may be going mad I guess<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 25, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe words in my head seem to stumble and tumble<br \/>\nIn crashing together they change what I know<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re laughing and teasing and watching me fumble<br \/>\nTo find any verse that I&#8217;m willing to show<\/p>\n<p>The voices are calling and playing with sayings<br \/>\nPretending the endings are easy to find<br \/>\nThey leave me to chase their provocative brayings<br \/>\nThe flotsam and jetsam that leaks from my mind<\/p>\n<p>The games that they play are my constant companions<br \/>\nThe tickling feeling of words having fun<br \/>\nI wait till their bridges are strung across canyons<br \/>\nThen try to decipher the tales they have spun<\/p>\n<p>And then my dear readers I rush to the keyboard<br \/>\nTo capture the nonsense I&#8217;ve struggled to think<br \/>\nThe waves of the world can soon better the freeboard<br \/>\nAnd under their weight all my verses will sink<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may be going mad I guess by cricketjeff on March 25, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The words in my head seem to stumble and tumble In crashing together they change what I know They&#8217;re laughing and teasing and watching me fumble To find any verse that I&#8217;m willing to show The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4506","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4506","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=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7002,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4506\/revisions\/7002"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}