{"id":4937,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4937"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-lucky-penny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-lucky-penny\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lucky Penny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Lucky Penny<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 4, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA lucky penny shone across the street<br \/>\nShe picked it up and thought her life would change<br \/>\nA bus arrived and stopped upon her feet<br \/>\nThe ways of lady luck are rather strange<\/p>\n<p>The doctor at the hospital said &#8220;Yes,<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll be all right it&#8217;s just a nasty bruise&#8221;<br \/>\nHer crutches slipped, she landed in a mess<br \/>\nAnd broke both legs, they&#8217;ll take six weeks to fuse.<\/p>\n<p>They took her home and settled her in bed<br \/>\nWhich promptly broke and left her in a sprawl<br \/>\nA pilot who was flying overhead<br \/>\nThen lost control and crashed into her wall<\/p>\n<p>And as she died she thought &#8220;I&#8217;m going mad &#8230;<br \/>\nWho knew a penny&#8217;s luck could be so bad?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lucky Penny by cricketjeff on February 4, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A lucky penny shone across the street She picked it up and thought her life would change A bus arrived and stopped upon her feet The ways of lady luck are rather strange The doctor at the hospital said &#8220;Yes, [&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-4937","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4937","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=4937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6571,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4937\/revisions\/6571"}],"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=4937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}