{"id":4836,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4836"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-word","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Word<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 21, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA single word, an English word far older than us all<br \/>\nHas caused a lot of fuss between some friends<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not a very complex word, in fact it&#8217;s rather small<br \/>\nBut tiny things have started many trends<br \/>\nIn countries all around the world where English makes its mark<br \/>\nThis word is either used or it is not<br \/>\nSome use it every time they speak and some to give a spark<br \/>\nFor others it&#8217;s akin to getting shot<br \/>\nWe poets are a fractious breed we fight amongst ourselves<br \/>\nSome people think no poetry should rhyme<br \/>\nAnd Jim will tear his hair out as the dots got pinched by elves<br \/>\nAnd other folk will find some other crime<br \/>\nBut spare a thought whatever else you feel about the case<br \/>\nThe victim never gets a chance to speak<br \/>\nThe word itself will still live on in honour or disgrace<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s honest, Anglo-Saxon, and quite meek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Word by cricketjeff on November 21, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A single word, an English word far older than us all Has caused a lot of fuss between some friends It&#8217;s not a very complex word, in fact it&#8217;s rather small But tiny things have started many trends In countries all [&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-4836","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4836","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=4836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6673,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4836\/revisions\/6673"}],"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=4836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}