{"id":4542,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4542"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:47","slug":"lazy-sunday-afternoon-not","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/lazy-sunday-afternoon-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazy Sunday Afternoon, NOT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Lazy Sunday Afternoon, NOT!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 11, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve just sat down to fill a bloody form<br \/>\nA list of questions I half understand<br \/>\nOutside the day is rather bright and warm<br \/>\nBureaucracy does not have pleasure planned<\/p>\n<p>A list of questions I half understand<br \/>\nIntrusive facts they cannot need to know<br \/>\nBureaucracy does not have pleasure planned<br \/>\nThey should have sent this form out in the snow<\/p>\n<p>Intrusive facts they cannot need to know<br \/>\nThe stock in trade of civil service minds<br \/>\nThey should have sent this form out in the snow<br \/>\nWhen they were busy sat on their behinds<\/p>\n<p>The stock in trade of civil service minds<br \/>\nThe database no-one will ever read<br \/>\nWhen they were busy sat on their behinds<br \/>\nThe rest of us were getting up to speed<\/p>\n<p>The database no-one will ever read<br \/>\nWith every little detail they can get<br \/>\nThe rest of us were getting up to speed<br \/>\nUntil their red-tape jelly trap had set<\/p>\n<p>With every little detail they can get<br \/>\nThey sap the will of those who would resist<br \/>\nUntil their red-tape jelly trap had set<br \/>\nWe though it wasn&#8217;t fog just morning mist<\/p>\n<p>They sap the will of those who would resist<br \/>\nSo dull and grey they damp out every spark<br \/>\nWe though it wasn&#8217;t fog just morning mist<br \/>\nInside this world is permanently dark<\/p>\n<p>So dull and grey they damp out every spark<br \/>\nOutside the day is rather bright and warm<br \/>\nInside this world is permanently dark<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve just sat down to fill a bloody form<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA middle Britain pantoum, the Student Loan company &#8230; AAAARRRGGGHHHH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lazy Sunday Afternoon, NOT! by cricketjeff on April 11, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I&#8217;ve just sat down to fill a bloody form A list of questions I half understand Outside the day is rather bright and warm Bureaucracy does not have pleasure planned A list of questions I half understand Intrusive facts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4542","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4542","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=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6966,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4542\/revisions\/6966"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}