{"id":4747,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4747"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","slug":"lifting-the-siege","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/lifting-the-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifting the Siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Lifting the Siege<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 11, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe sky is overcast and heavy air<br \/>\nCondemns us all to suffering today.<br \/>\nThe sweat-box tube has misery to share<br \/>\nAs London&#8217;s diverse tempers start to fray.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet tempered lambs turn into angry rams<br \/>\nAnd fighting bulls are born in human herds<br \/>\nFrustration boils in long immobile jams<br \/>\nWhere shrieking horns are met by angry words.<\/p>\n<p>The day turns black before a crash and flash<br \/>\nTransforms the overbearing atmosphere<br \/>\nA laugh or smile arrives with every splash<br \/>\nAnd fighting friends abandon rows for beer<\/p>\n<p>A thunderstorm&#8217;s the sweetest fastest cure<br \/>\nFor humid hells we rat-racers endure<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI LOVE a good storm [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/grin.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifting the Siege by cricketjeff on September 11, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The sky is overcast and heavy air Condemns us all to suffering today. The sweat-box tube has misery to share As London&#8217;s diverse tempers start to fray. Sweet tempered lambs turn into angry rams And fighting bulls are born in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4747","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4747","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=4747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6760,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4747\/revisions\/6760"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}