{"id":5017,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5017"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-downside-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-downside-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Downside of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Downside of Spring<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 3, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI was sitting unconcerned and then I sneezed<br \/>\nNo shy affair it almost felled the walls<br \/>\nAnd started several North Atlantic squalls<br \/>\nThose pollen spreading booby traps had teased<br \/>\nThe people of the neighbourhood weren&#8217;t pleased<br \/>\nOnce sneezes start they come in waterfalls<br \/>\nAnd rip the nights like whizzing cannon balls<br \/>\nJuly will come before the pains are eased<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to find some drops to sooth my eyes<br \/>\nAnd check we have a tissue box or six<br \/>\nEach day for months the pollen count will rise<br \/>\nAs grass and trees get up to nasty tricks<br \/>\nThe beauties of the season seem like lies<br \/>\nTo those of us who&#8217;re stuck within this fix<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t suffer badly really, just a few sneezes and very sore eyes on high<br \/>\ncount days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Downside of Spring by cricketjeff on April 3, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I was sitting unconcerned and then I sneezed No shy affair it almost felled the walls And started several North Atlantic squalls Those pollen spreading booby traps had teased The people of the neighbourhood weren&#8217;t pleased Once sneezes start [&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-5017","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5017","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=5017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6491,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5017\/revisions\/6491"}],"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=5017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}