{"id":4690,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4690"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-best-laid-plans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-best-laid-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Laid Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Best Laid Plans<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 31, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe chocolate cake was sitting on the plate,<br \/>\nConsidering his options carefully.<br \/>\nSo many different choices to debate<br \/>\nBut only one intended destiny.<\/p>\n<p>His brief existence had a single aim,<br \/>\nA target marked before he came to life.<br \/>\nSo sweet a treat would not be held to blame<br \/>\nFor hatching plots to help a spiteful wife.<\/p>\n<p>Now Death himself arrived to take a hand,<br \/>\nHe swapped the plates, unnoticed at the time.<br \/>\nHe knew the awful end that had been planned<br \/>\nAnd acted to prevent the dreadful crime.<\/p>\n<p>She ate the cake she&#8217;d laced with cyanide,<br \/>\nAnd cake and Death watched laughing as she died.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA while ago a discussion on AP centred on personifications of death and a few<br \/>\nother things being too old hat for modern writing, and I said I thought that<br \/>\nwas nonsense, I&#8217;d given voices to many things including chocolate cake and<br \/>\ndeath but never in one poem. ecrvain01 said he&#8217;d like to see that so &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Best Laid Plans by cricketjeff on July 31, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The chocolate cake was sitting on the plate, Considering his options carefully. So many different choices to debate But only one intended destiny. His brief existence had a single aim, A target marked before he came to life. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4690","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4690","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=4690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6818,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4690\/revisions\/6818"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}