{"id":5249,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5249"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","slug":"the-schonbrunn-waltz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-schonbrunn-waltz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sch\u00f6nbrunn Waltz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Sch\u00f6nbrunn Waltz<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 14, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhile the air fills with scents from the gardens outside<br \/>\nAnd the hint of a waltz hits your ears,<br \/>\nYou are carried away by the beauty allied<br \/>\nTo the ghosts of imperial years.<br \/>\nThere are rooms where the gilding is washed on the walls,<br \/>\nLike the spray from Niagara&#8217;s mist,<br \/>\nAnd the echoes of Strauss come with intricate calls<br \/>\nTo the grottos where princesses kissed.<br \/>\nThrough the grounds where the Emperors walked in the spring,<br \/>\nTo the follies their ancestors made,<br \/>\nPast collections of trees where exotic birds sing<br \/>\nAnd the lawns where the peacocks displayed.<br \/>\nIn the Tiergarten animals hide from the wild<br \/>\nBut they&#8217;re making a show just for you,<br \/>\nIn the Sch\u00f6nbrunn you&#8217;ll be an excitable child<br \/>\nAnd the best of the old will seem new.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nSorry it&#8217;s not a sonnet, but I can&#8217;t think of the Sch\u00f6nbrunn Palace without<br \/>\ndancers twirling to a concert of Viennese waltzes and polkas<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sch\u00f6nbrunn Waltz by cricketjeff on November 14, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved While the air fills with scents from the gardens outside And the hint of a waltz hits your ears, You are carried away by the beauty allied To the ghosts of imperial years. There are rooms where the gilding is [&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-5249","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5249","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=5249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6259,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5249\/revisions\/6259"}],"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=5249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}