{"id":5147,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5147"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:02","slug":"its-time-for-the-tests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/its-time-for-the-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"It\\&#8217;s Time for the Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It&#8217;s Time for the Tests<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 23, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s time for the game that the gods have invented<br \/>\nTo entertain angels all over the skies<br \/>\nThe orderly clash between nations presented<br \/>\nAs life and death battle where nobody dies.<br \/>\nThe Indians and English are meeting at Lord&#8217;s<br \/>\nDeciding the issue without needing swords<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s time for the Tests, for the essence of cricket<br \/>\nFor five days of struggle to see who will win<br \/>\nFor batsmen to dance while defending the wicket<br \/>\nFor bowlers to test them with pace and with spin<br \/>\nSo if I&#8217;m &#8220;not here&#8221; you now know who&#8217;s to blame<br \/>\nThe gods and the angels who thought up the game!<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Time for the Tests by cricketjeff on July 23, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved It&#8217;s time for the game that the gods have invented To entertain angels all over the skies The orderly clash between nations presented As life and death battle where nobody dies. The Indians and English are meeting at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5147","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5147","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=5147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6362,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5147\/revisions\/6362"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}