{"id":5011,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5011"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-last-train-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-last-train-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Train Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Last Train Home<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 28, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA smattering of after-darkers,<br \/>\nHeading home or who knows where;<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s two old men in threadbare Parkas,<br \/>\nCraggy beards and long grey hair.<br \/>\nA loud fat lady bubbles painting,<br \/>\nCubist art and West-end shows;<br \/>\nHer friend just nods and looks like fainting<br \/>\nIn dirty slacks and funny nose.<br \/>\nA pretty girl lies head-on-shoulder,<br \/>\nBy a man who&#8217;s twice her size.<br \/>\nAnother couple, both much older ,<br \/>\nGazing into love struck eyes.<br \/>\nWe stop again, a happy party,<br \/>\nSpeaking French and much too loud &#8212;<br \/>\nOne is tall and rather arty<br \/>\nHis friend is short and can&#8217;t be proud!<br \/>\nOne by one they leave the carriage,<br \/>\nTill there&#8217;s me and two young friends;<br \/>\nIgnoring me they practice marriage,<br \/>\nNow like the train their journey ends.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI have some more notes to bash into this [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/<br \/>\nhappy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Train Home by cricketjeff on March 28, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A smattering of after-darkers, Heading home or who knows where; There&#8217;s two old men in threadbare Parkas, Craggy beards and long grey hair. A loud fat lady bubbles painting, Cubist art and West-end shows; Her friend just nods and [&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-5011","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5011","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=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6497,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5011\/revisions\/6497"}],"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=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}