{"id":4703,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4703"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","slug":"transformation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Transformation<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 9, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe pink tinged clouds now fade to grey<br \/>\nAs hard edged shadows fade away<br \/>\nAnd so we bid farewell to day<br \/>\nAnd greet the coming night<\/p>\n<p>With Venus twinkling into view<br \/>\nThe constellations form a queue<br \/>\nTo paint the star-flecked sky anew<br \/>\nThat covers us at night<\/p>\n<p>The thinnest crescent of the Moon<br \/>\nWill wane to darkness all too soon<br \/>\nWhile lovers of the dark commune<br \/>\nWith phantoms of the night<\/p>\n<p>You fools who live your summer dreams<br \/>\nWhile washed by golden daylight beams<br \/>\nIgnore this magic as it streams<br \/>\nFrom corners of the night<\/p>\n<p>Now rest awhile and try to see<br \/>\nThe great nocturnal poetry<br \/>\nThat sets the true romantic free<br \/>\nTo roam across the night<\/p>\n<p>When Cupid clad in sable sheets<br \/>\nPursues our hearts down silent streets<br \/>\nThe reticence of day retreats<br \/>\nAnd lovers own the night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transformation by cricketjeff on August 9, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The pink tinged clouds now fade to grey As hard edged shadows fade away And so we bid farewell to day And greet the coming night With Venus twinkling into view The constellations form a queue To paint the star-flecked sky anew [&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-4703","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4703","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=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6805,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4703\/revisions\/6805"}],"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=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}