{"id":4974,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4974"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","slug":"the-scottish-sonnet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-scottish-sonnet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scottish Sonnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Scottish Sonnet<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 2, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWeird sisters meet upon a blasted heath<br \/>\nAnd cast dread spells to see the future&#8217;s shade.<br \/>\nThe rightful king will wear his final wreath<br \/>\nBefore MacBeth sees all his chances fade.<\/p>\n<p>A scheming wife demands a regicide,<br \/>\nOne killing leads to further useless gore.<br \/>\nA spreading stain no washing cloth can hide<br \/>\nAnd Banquo&#8217;s ghost returns to square the score.<\/p>\n<p>The story ends when Siward&#8217;s men arrive,<br \/>\nWell masked by leaves they&#8217;ve come to Dunsinane.<br \/>\nThe few remaining principals alive<br \/>\nCombine to end the murd&#8217;rers bloody reign.<\/p>\n<p>Deceived by words MacBeth has died a fool,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s Banquo&#8217;s sons who have the chance to rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Sonnet by cricketjeff on March 2, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Weird sisters meet upon a blasted heath And cast dread spells to see the future&#8217;s shade. The rightful king will wear his final wreath Before MacBeth sees all his chances fade. A scheming wife demands a regicide, One killing leads [&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-4974","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4974","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=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6533,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4974\/revisions\/6533"}],"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=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}