{"id":5185,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5185"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","slug":"the-river-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-river-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"The River in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The River in the Rain<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 25, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe river was a torrent and the ducks were not amused<br \/>\nThey sat up on the pavement looking bothered and bemused<br \/>\nNo children throwing breadcrumbs and no island where they doze<br \/>\nJust noise and boiling torrents where each drainpipe overflows<\/p>\n<p>The moorhens like to scuttle through the willows trailing leaves<br \/>\nBut now they had to huddle under rusty warehouse eaves<br \/>\nThe sun had started peaking and the rain was on the wane<br \/>\nBut puddles take their time to find a handy roadside drain<\/p>\n<p>A steady flow of shoppers under multi-coloured roofs<br \/>\nWeaved through the maze of water like detectives seeking proofs<br \/>\nBut none had time to worry that the ducks were in distress<br \/>\nTheir tidy little river filled with all the city&#8217;s mess<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow will be sunny and the children will return<br \/>\nThe flood will be abating and the muds no longer churn<br \/>\nThe ducks will start to dabble while the geese begin to cruise<br \/>\nAnd the moorhens in the willow can resume their lunchtime snooze<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The River in the Rain by cricketjeff on August 25, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The river was a torrent and the ducks were not amused They sat up on the pavement looking bothered and bemused No children throwing breadcrumbs and no island where they doze Just noise and boiling torrents where each [&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-5185","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5185","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=5185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6325,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5185\/revisions\/6325"}],"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=5185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}