{"id":4992,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4992"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:02","slug":"insignificance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/insignificance\/","title":{"rendered":"Insignificance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Insignificance<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 13, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWe like to think that we are in control<br \/>\nThat nature is a pet we choose to keep<br \/>\nBut days arrive when we must pay the toll<br \/>\nWe didn&#8217;t sow the whirlwind we must reap<\/p>\n<p>There were no clues before the awful quake<br \/>\nAnd little time before that dreadful wave<br \/>\nWhat can you do when buildings start to shake<br \/>\nToo many lives will not be yours to save<\/p>\n<p>The Earth will never be a toy we own<br \/>\nOur greatest deeds are pinpricks on its skin<br \/>\nYou cannot ask forgiveness from a stone<br \/>\nNo vengeance drives the rumblings within<\/p>\n<p>Though every life is precious in our eyes<br \/>\nThe universe will never hear our sighs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insignificance by cricketjeff on March 13, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved We like to think that we are in control That nature is a pet we choose to keep But days arrive when we must pay the toll We didn&#8217;t sow the whirlwind we must reap There were no clues before the awful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4992","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4992","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=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6516,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4992\/revisions\/6516"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}