{"id":4564,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4564"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:56:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:56:38","slug":"reading-poetry-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/r-poems\/reading-poetry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Reading Poetry<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 23, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nReading poetry at lunchtime in the cherry blossom snow<br \/>\nIn the park behind the station where the dreamy eaters go<br \/>\nThinking thoughts of moonlit mountains or a sunny summer beach<br \/>\nIn the poetry of ages any scene&#8217;s within your reach<\/p>\n<p>Here the angry buzz of traffic seems to be so far away<br \/>\nAnd the threats of work and meetings flee to some far distant day<br \/>\nAll there is are words of wonder and a tasty bacon roll<br \/>\nWhen the poetry of masters does its best to save your soul<\/p>\n<p>Is the crump of angry shell fire in my mind or down the road<br \/>\nCould be Owen&#8217;s finest verses or a lorry&#8217;s shed its load<br \/>\nBut the sunlight and gentle breezes are both in me and for real<br \/>\nWhen the poetry of artists gives me other dreams to feel<\/p>\n<p>When a nagging guilty conscience makes me close the books of spells<br \/>\nI must head back to the office and its rows of lifeless cells<br \/>\nI shall wrestle with each problem and I&#8217;ll find each hidden clue<br \/>\nTill the poetry of lovers brings me back again to you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Poetry by cricketjeff on April 23, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Reading poetry at lunchtime in the cherry blossom snow In the park behind the station where the dreamy eaters go Thinking thoughts of moonlit mountains or a sunny summer beach In the poetry of ages any scene&#8217;s within your reach Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9738,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4564","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4564","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=4564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6943,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4564\/revisions\/6943"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}