{"id":5197,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5197"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","slug":"being-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/b-poems\/being-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Being Me<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 4, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather be last amongst winners<br \/>\nThan best of a poor second best<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t learn by beating beginners<br \/>\nThen beating an undersized chest<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather be lost in the mountains<br \/>\nThan king of a small range of hills<br \/>\nGo running through courtyards of fountains<br \/>\nThan wait while a paddling pool fills<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t judge a book by the cover<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all that&#8217;s inside it that counts<br \/>\nThe same rules apply to a lover<br \/>\nLove can&#8217;t be assessed by amounts<br \/>\nFor friends I would walk through hot embers<br \/>\nBut not lose a mate for a friend<br \/>\nA friend is a mate who remembers<br \/>\nYou have to be you to the end<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care who thinks I&#8217;m amazing<br \/>\nThough praises are sweet to receive<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not after flattering phrasing<br \/>\nBut knowing the truths you believe<br \/>\nSo if I declare that I love you<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t think that I&#8217;m lashed to your wheel<br \/>\nI won&#8217;t put another above you<br \/>\nBut will think how others will feel<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not really happy with this, not sure what&#8217;s wrong yet &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being Me by cricketjeff on September 4, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I&#8217;d rather be last amongst winners Than best of a poor second best You can&#8217;t learn by beating beginners Then beating an undersized chest I&#8217;d rather be lost in the mountains Than king of a small range of hills Go running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5197","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5197","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=5197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6311,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5197\/revisions\/6311"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}