{"id":5120,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5120"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","slug":"to-birr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/to-birr\/","title":{"rendered":"To Birr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> To Birr<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 2, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn the centre of the island lies the little town of Birr<br \/>\nRound the castle where the Parsons still reside<br \/>\nThere are Gothic fronted buildings that are picturesque &#8220;for sure&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Leviathan is standing tall outside<br \/>\nOn this half forgotten byway all the universe looked down<br \/>\nExcept when Ireland&#8217;s weather laid a blanket on the town!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe Leviathan was for many years the largest telescope in the world, but not in<br \/>\nan ideal place to study the stars!<br \/>\nBirr is a small town almost exactly in the centre of the island of Ireland<br \/>\nwhere Birr and &#8220;for sure&#8221; are perfect rhymes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Birr by cricketjeff on July 2, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In the centre of the island lies the little town of Birr Round the castle where the Parsons still reside There are Gothic fronted buildings that are picturesque &#8220;for sure&#8221; The Leviathan is standing tall outside On this half forgotten byway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5120","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=5120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5120\/revisions\/6387"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}