{"id":4571,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4571"},"modified":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","slug":"changing-the-guard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/c-poems\/changing-the-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Changing the guard<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 26, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA sparrow sings to bid the day goodbye<br \/>\nAs sunlight cedes the heavens to the Moon<br \/>\nAlone amidst a cloud-flecked dark&#8217;ning sky<br \/>\nHer courtiers will flock to join her soon<\/p>\n<p>The blossom on some trees appears to shine<br \/>\nWhile skeletons beside them start to hide<br \/>\nThe kitchen clock announces it is nine<br \/>\nThe neighbourhood is settling inside<\/p>\n<p>And what of you my lover of the night<br \/>\nWill you awake to chart each distant star<br \/>\nAnd send me notes of bubbling delight<br \/>\nWith every detail garnered from afar<\/p>\n<p>Most people need to feel the light of day<br \/>\nAstronomers need darkness for their play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing the guard by cricketjeff on April 26, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A sparrow sings to bid the day goodbye As sunlight cedes the heavens to the Moon Alone amidst a cloud-flecked dark&#8217;ning sky Her courtiers will flock to join her soon The blossom on some trees appears to shine While skeletons [&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-4571","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4571","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=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6937,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4571\/revisions\/6937"}],"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=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}