{"id":4645,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4645"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:03:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:03:39","slug":"take-heed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/take-heed\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Heed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Take Heed!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 26, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAs a pretty little toddler she adored her teddy bear,<br \/>\nUntil she woke one morning and she found it wasn&#8217;t there.<br \/>\nHow could a tiny misfit be to blame for tragedy;<br \/>\nThe &#8220;Toyshop Where They Found the Bear Explosion Mystery!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She was only six or seven when her special little friend<br \/>\nWas moving with his parents, so he said it had to end.<br \/>\nThe lorry with their home in never made that other town,<br \/>\nAs she tidied daddy&#8217;s spanners she had grace enough to frown.<\/p>\n<p>A girlfriend of her teenage years discovered teenage boys,<br \/>\nAnd left their cosy friendship for these new exciting toys.<br \/>\nCoincidence they called it when her &#8220;gang&#8221; all disappeared,<br \/>\nThese things all seem to happen when some fool has interfered.<\/p>\n<p>The first time she was jilted there were stories in the press,<br \/>\nThey found his floating body in a sexy mini-dress.<br \/>\nIf she dumps them they stay living, feeling emptiness inside,<br \/>\nBut everyone who&#8217;s tried to leave discovers they have died.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s safe to be her lover if you&#8217;re true to how you feel<br \/>\nAnd only claim to love her when you&#8217;re certain love is real<br \/>\nBut never pull a fast one or &#8220;discover someone new&#8221;,<br \/>\nThese verses tell you plainly what will happen if you do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take Heed! by cricketjeff on June 26, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved As a pretty little toddler she adored her teddy bear, Until she woke one morning and she found it wasn&#8217;t there. How could a tiny misfit be to blame for tragedy; The &#8220;Toyshop Where They Found the Bear Explosion Mystery!&#8221; She [&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-4645","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4645","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=4645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6864,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4645\/revisions\/6864"}],"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=4645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}