{"id":5224,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5224"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","slug":"pandemic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Pandemic<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 9, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAn epidemic stalks our ancient land,<br \/>\nIt strikes the young and old and in betweens.<br \/>\nWith symptoms that nobody understands,<br \/>\nWe shake our heads and wonder what it means.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see the victims sitting on their own,<br \/>\nWith tear-red eyes or wreathed in foolish smiles.<br \/>\nThey touch the greatest heights that they have known,<br \/>\nOr write the tales that misery compiles.<\/p>\n<p>What can we do? No man has found a cure,<br \/>\nIt sometimes fades and leaves a tender glow.<br \/>\nThe lucky few will find that they endure<br \/>\nAnd day by day their happiness may grow.<\/p>\n<p>The ache of love, our greatest gift and curse<br \/>\nA slice of Heaven, of Hell or something worse!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pandemic by cricketjeff on October 9, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved An epidemic stalks our ancient land, It strikes the young and old and in betweens. With symptoms that nobody understands, We shake our heads and wonder what it means. You&#8217;ll see the victims sitting on their own, With tear-red eyes or wreathed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9734,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5224","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5224","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=5224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6284,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5224\/revisions\/6284"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}