{"id":4614,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4614"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","slug":"tragedy-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/tragedy-in-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy in paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tragedy in paradise<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 2, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe news reports a madman on a spree<br \/>\nA dozen died without a reason why<br \/>\nIn villages that nestle by the sea<br \/>\nBeneath the hills that brush against the sky<\/p>\n<p>The taste of death has come to paradise<br \/>\nOn country lanes where walkers stopped to stare<br \/>\nThe perfect views are stained by human vice<br \/>\nThese aren&#8217;t the scenes that I have tried to share<\/p>\n<p>So many tears will flow within the sight<br \/>\nOf grey green hills so beautiful and tall<br \/>\nMy ancient friends stand silently tonight<br \/>\nAn evil man has stayed their siren call<\/p>\n<p>The sound of guns has drowned the singing streams<br \/>\nAnd sudden grief invaded gentle dreams<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA taxi driver in Whitehaven has driven through the towns and villages on the<br \/>\nedge of the English Lake district shooting people at random. Twelve dead many<br \/>\nmore injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy in paradise by cricketjeff on June 2, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The news reports a madman on a spree A dozen died without a reason why In villages that nestle by the sea Beneath the hills that brush against the sky The taste of death has come to paradise On country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4614","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4614","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=4614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6894,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4614\/revisions\/6894"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}