{"id":5223,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5223"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","slug":"trouble-makers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/trouble-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Trouble Makers<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 5, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nTrue masters of the trouble-maker&#8217;s art,<br \/>\nWho make the sanest actions seem absurd.<br \/>\nOne changes every rule before the start,<br \/>\nAnother alters every second word.<\/p>\n<p>A simple job made complex on a whim,<br \/>\nA gentle stroll through Himalayan peaks,<br \/>\nWhen they&#8217;re around the brightest prospect&#8217;s grim &#8212;<br \/>\nAn afternoon turned into many weeks.<\/p>\n<p>How do these men achieve their leading roles?<br \/>\nWho lets them keep their victims on their knees?<br \/>\nThe recipe for darkening our souls &#8212;<br \/>\nIncompetence disguised as expertise.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know the subjects of my rhyme<br \/>\nIt must be you who perpetrates the crime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trouble Makers by cricketjeff on October 5, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved True masters of the trouble-maker&#8217;s art, Who make the sanest actions seem absurd. One changes every rule before the start, Another alters every second word. A simple job made complex on a whim, A gentle stroll through Himalayan peaks, When they&#8217;re [&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-5223","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5223","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=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6285,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5223\/revisions\/6285"}],"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=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}