{"id":4521,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4521"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-isle-of-much-belief","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-isle-of-much-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"The Isle of Much Belief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Isle of Much Belief<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 1, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhite pineberries, spaghetti trees<br \/>\nAnd trips to San Seriffe<br \/>\nHave on this day oft&#8217; led astray<br \/>\nThe folk of Much Belief.<\/p>\n<p>This tiny isle, a windblown pile,<br \/>\nIs calm throughout the year<br \/>\nBut early spring will always bring<br \/>\nA sudden storm of fear.<\/p>\n<p>As journalists (three quarters pissed)<br \/>\nArrive from near and far;<br \/>\nTo try to find where rice is mined<br \/>\nAnd how they wash in tar.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC will usually<br \/>\nDispatch a team or two.<br \/>\nThe New York Times reports on crimes,<br \/>\nOf which they&#8217;ve not a clue.<\/p>\n<p>In Much Belief a world of grief<br \/>\nSurrounds the feast of fools;<br \/>\nThe world makes fun of everyone<br \/>\nWho just obeys the rules!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Isle of Much Belief by cricketjeff on April 1, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved White pineberries, spaghetti trees And trips to San Seriffe Have on this day oft&#8217; led astray The folk of Much Belief. This tiny isle, a windblown pile, Is calm throughout the year But early spring will always bring [&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-4521","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4521","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=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6988,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4521\/revisions\/6988"}],"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=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}