{"id":5001,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5001"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:42:57","slug":"art-in-the-fast-lane","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/art-in-the-fast-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Art in the Fast Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Art in the Fast Lane<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 20, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/0001.jpg]<\/p>\n<p>When van Gogh whirled his brush through Starry Night<br \/>\nAnd Mona Lisa moved da Vinci&#8217;s muse<br \/>\nI doubt they dreamt their pictures would ignite<br \/>\nAn artist who had only mud to use<\/p>\n<p>A dirty road prepares a passing car<br \/>\nAnd in the muck he feels a work of art<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve rarely heard of beauty more bizarre<br \/>\nThan Scott Wade finds from deep within his heart<\/p>\n<p>On Sundays men are seen with sponge and hose<br \/>\nLike peacocks who perfect majestic tails<br \/>\nThey polish every panel till it glows<br \/>\nYet here&#8217;s a man who seen where preening fails<\/p>\n<p>A transitory beauty driving past<br \/>\nThey say that modern art is moving fast!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nInspired by Scott Wade&#8217;s mad and marvellous Dirty_Car_Art<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art in the Fast Lane by cricketjeff on March 20, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/0001.jpg] When van Gogh whirled his brush through Starry Night And Mona Lisa moved da Vinci&#8217;s muse I doubt they dreamt their pictures would ignite An artist who had only mud to use A dirty road prepares a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5001","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5001","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=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6507,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5001\/revisions\/6507"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}