{"id":4553,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4553"},"modified":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","slug":"consequences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/c-poems\/consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Consequences<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 16, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAcross a wash of Wedgwood blue<br \/>\nThe birds are all that flies<br \/>\nThe England that the ancients drew<br \/>\nWith unencumbered skies<\/p>\n<p>Far North of us a stream of ash<br \/>\nExplodes into the air<br \/>\nAnd since they do not want to crash<br \/>\nThe planes aren&#8217;t anywhere<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re away you&#8217;ll have to stay<br \/>\nNo chance of flying home<br \/>\nYour trips extending day-by-day<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve much more time to roam<\/p>\n<p>Volcanoes don&#8217;t believe in man<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re far too small and fast<br \/>\nThey work towards the longer plan<br \/>\nProgressing blast by blast<\/p>\n<p>Some oceans stretch and some recede<br \/>\nAs plates are on the move<br \/>\nAll working to our planet&#8217;s need<br \/>\nWe aren&#8217;t asked to approve<\/p>\n<p>The plume of ash a tiny part<br \/>\nOf these more massive tales<br \/>\nBut it has filled this poet&#8217;s heart<br \/>\nNo Bloody Vapour Trails!!!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nOn a news programme a journalist was interviewing a geologist about the<br \/>\nvolcano&#8217;s effects, and at one point asked &#8220;when can travellers expect to be<br \/>\nable to fly again&#8221;<br \/>\nThe reply, delivered entirely dead pan was<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s a Volcano!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Said it all really [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/grin.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consequences by cricketjeff on April 16, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Across a wash of Wedgwood blue The birds are all that flies The England that the ancients drew With unencumbered skies Far North of us a stream of ash Explodes into the air And since they do not want to crash The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9696,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4553","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4553","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=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6954,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4553\/revisions\/6954"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}