{"id":4556,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4556"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:36","slug":"my-pencil-shakes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/my-pencil-shakes\/","title":{"rendered":"My Pencil Shakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> My Pencil Shakes<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 18, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nMy pencil shakes<br \/>\nand the crossword clues<br \/>\nare gibberish<\/p>\n<p>A cup of tea<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 gets cold<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 and I pretend<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 that I don&#8217;t care<br \/>\ntry to convince myself<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 that I don&#8217;t care<br \/>\nbut I do.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty people<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 in a theatre for three hundred<br \/>\nthirty people who matter to me<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 will matter<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 if I can get it right<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 if I can sell them snake oil<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 my snake oil<br \/>\nIn thirty minutes I have worked on for thirty days.<\/p>\n<p>Time to go<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 take my turn<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 try to turn them on<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 an atheist evangelising<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 in this land of ultimate belief<br \/>\nA Green selling green systems<br \/>\nDAMN<\/p>\n<p>My pencil shakes<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nBut the good news is, they all bought it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Pencil Shakes by cricketjeff on April 18, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved My pencil shakes and the crossword clues are gibberish A cup of tea \u00a0 \u00a0 gets cold \u00a0 \u00a0 and I pretend \u00a0 \u00a0 that I don&#8217;t care try to convince myself \u00a0 \u00a0 that I don&#8217;t care but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4556","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4556","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=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6952,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4556\/revisions\/6952"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}