{"id":5109,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5109"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","slug":"modesty-forbids","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/modesty-forbids\/","title":{"rendered":"Modesty Forbids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Modesty Forbids<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 22, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThere are times when understatement isn&#8217;t all you want to see<br \/>\nWhen you crave a grander language with a sense of majesty<br \/>\nWhen you need to gild your lilies, scatter diamonds in your hair<br \/>\nShow the World your regal bearing while you smile to show you care.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThere are strange, infrequent moments when immodesty is best<br \/>\nWhen your diffident demeanour should be left alone to rest<br \/>\nWhen a small exaggeration could be worth a million pounds<br \/>\nAnd the world needs all your saying for the beauty of your sounds<\/p>\n<p>If you feel these times approaching then I know you&#8217;ll bear the weight<br \/>\nWith the swarve sophistication that&#8217;s the hallmark of the great<br \/>\nYou will bow perhaps or curtsey to the lesser mortals near<br \/>\nAnd without the least presumption you will make your meanings clear<\/p>\n<p>Now I offer this suggestion of a time of certainty<br \/>\nYou will need to shout your loudest when you say nice things of me!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nNeed I say more? I cannot really help being so much better than mere mortals, I<br \/>\ntry of course, but what can I do, I know you must feel blessed to merely know<br \/>\nof my existence &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modesty Forbids by cricketjeff on June 22, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved There are times when understatement isn&#8217;t all you want to see When you crave a grander language with a sense of majesty When you need to gild your lilies, scatter diamonds in your hair Show the World your regal bearing while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5109","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5109","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=5109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6399,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5109\/revisions\/6399"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}