{"id":5008,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5008"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","slug":"play-the-game","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/play-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Play the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Play the Game<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 25, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nSome silly fools ignore the rules, but they will never win<br \/>\nIt isn&#8217;t sport if you&#8217;re prepared to cheat<br \/>\nThey puff their chests and beat their breasts to make a mighty din<br \/>\nA lame attempt to hide their mute defeat<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s better if you&#8217;re winning but that&#8217;s not the only aim<br \/>\nIn life, in love, in everything you have to play the game<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A little pill can&#8217;t end the thrill, I have to finish first&#8221;<br \/>\nThat type of cry is heard around the World<br \/>\nA medal&#8217;s meant to celebrate the best and not the worst<br \/>\nYou should be proud to see your flag unfurled<br \/>\nBut golfers who make one mistake believe they&#8217;ll die of shame<br \/>\nIn life, in love, in everything you have to play the game<\/p>\n<p>Why would you play with those who stray you cannot prove a thing<br \/>\nIf all they do is practice subterfuge<br \/>\nNo running race can match the pace of jet planes on the wing<br \/>\nAnd rocket sleds will always beat the luge<br \/>\nWhatever way they choose to cheat the most they&#8217;ll gain is shame<br \/>\nIn life, in love, in everything you have to play the game<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nNeeds expanding I think, I may return to it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play the Game by cricketjeff on March 25, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Some silly fools ignore the rules, but they will never win It isn&#8217;t sport if you&#8217;re prepared to cheat They puff their chests and beat their breasts to make a mighty din A lame attempt to hide their mute defeat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9734,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5008","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5008","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=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6502,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5008\/revisions\/6502"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}