{"id":5170,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5170"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-hidden-weapon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-hidden-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Hidden Weapon<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 13, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe concrete fisted velvet glove<br \/>\n&#8216;S the chosen weaponry of love<br \/>\nThe texture of the outer shell<br \/>\nBelies the inner threat of hell<\/p>\n<p>Each tender hold&#8217;s a rigid vice<br \/>\nThe warmest kiss is fringed with ice<br \/>\nAll pleasures hurt when misapplied<br \/>\nTo fall in love is suicide<\/p>\n<p>But past the pain the wounds will heal<br \/>\nWith all your dreams becoming real<br \/>\nThe concrete fist is turned to dust<br \/>\nWhen liquid love combines with lust<\/p>\n<p>The tortures it condemns us to<br \/>\nDissolve when love is proven true<br \/>\nAnd then the heart and soul are free<br \/>\nTo live and love in ecstasy<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nToo many long lines are bad for me so sometimes a few iambic tetrameter<br \/>\ncouplets have to leak out [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hidden Weapon by cricketjeff on August 13, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The concrete fisted velvet glove &#8216;S the chosen weaponry of love The texture of the outer shell Belies the inner threat of hell Each tender hold&#8217;s a rigid vice The warmest kiss is fringed with ice All pleasures hurt when [&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-5170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5170","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=5170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6338,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5170\/revisions\/6338"}],"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=5170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}