{"id":5039,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5039"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","slug":"the-screen-goddess","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-screen-goddess\/","title":{"rendered":"The Screen Goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Screen Goddess<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 24, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nEvery word was soft seduction<br \/>\nEvery move suggested more<br \/>\nFrom the formal introduction<br \/>\nTo a circuit of the floor<\/p>\n<p>Flowing gold fell round her shoulders<br \/>\nLiquid sapphire in her eyes<br \/>\nShe could light the fire that smoulders<br \/>\nTill her happy victim dies<\/p>\n<p>Not a blemish free perfection<br \/>\nJust an August breeze away<br \/>\nNo one raised the least objection<br \/>\nWhen we cast her in the play<\/p>\n<p>Men who saw her often whistled<br \/>\nThen they dreamt another fate<br \/>\nAnd their women&#8217;s faces bristled<br \/>\nWas it envy, was it hate?<\/p>\n<p>When she danced she captured lovers<br \/>\nWhen she sang she broke their hearts<br \/>\nFrom one kiss no man recovers<br \/>\nLiving on in shattered parts<\/p>\n<p>Was she ever more than daydreams<br \/>\nIn a thousand breaking hearts<br \/>\nMust such fantasies still stay dreams<br \/>\nIf her victims play their parts &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Screen Goddess by cricketjeff on April 24, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Every word was soft seduction Every move suggested more From the formal introduction To a circuit of the floor Flowing gold fell round her shoulders Liquid sapphire in her eyes She could light the fire that smoulders Till her happy [&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-5039","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5039","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=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6467,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5039\/revisions\/6467"}],"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=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}