{"id":4727,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4727"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-chicken-and-the-egg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-chicken-and-the-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chicken and the Egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Chicken and the Egg<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 26, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThey say that every poet is a dreamer<br \/>\nI say that every poet is the dream<br \/>\nWhen verse has taken passage on the steamer<br \/>\nThe writer is the power in the steam<\/p>\n<p>Our words are not mere echoes of existence<br \/>\nThey coalesce as lifeforms of their own<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re midwives charged with rendering assistance<br \/>\nTo children who can not be born alone<\/p>\n<p>And yet it seems that writing is my mother<br \/>\nIt gives me life that I could never know<br \/>\nAn ember that the World can never smother<br \/>\nThe energy to feed an inner glow<\/p>\n<p>I ask you as spectators of this sport<br \/>\nHow can you tell the thinker from the thought<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI dunno!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicken and the Egg by cricketjeff on August 26, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved They say that every poet is a dreamer I say that every poet is the dream When verse has taken passage on the steamer The writer is the power in the steam Our words are not mere echoes [&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-4727","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4727","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=4727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6781,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4727\/revisions\/6781"}],"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=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}