{"id":5116,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5116"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-needle-match","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-needle-match\/","title":{"rendered":"The Needle Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Needle Match<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 29, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe distant pat of bat on ball<br \/>\nHalf heard, half seen through half closed eyes<br \/>\nQuite undisturbed by batsman&#8217;s call<br \/>\nAnd unaware of fielders&#8217; cries<\/p>\n<p>With deckchaired crowd all sat in place<br \/>\nThe game proceeds at gentle pace<br \/>\nAn afternoon of booze and snooze<br \/>\nWho cares which team will win or lose?<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nWhat better way to spend a Summer Sunday afternoon than at a lazy local match<br \/>\nwith a few ciders and strawberries for tea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Needle Match by cricketjeff on June 29, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The distant pat of bat on ball Half heard, half seen through half closed eyes Quite undisturbed by batsman&#8217;s call And unaware of fielders&#8217; cries With deckchaired crowd all sat in place The game proceeds at gentle pace An afternoon [&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-5116","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5116","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=5116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6392,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5116\/revisions\/6392"}],"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=5116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}