{"id":5278,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5278"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"ignoring-reality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/ignoring-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignoring Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Ignoring Reality<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 28, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThey say that year by year I&#8217;m getting older,<br \/>\nWhich seems to be a silly thing to do.<br \/>\nMy memories demand a larger folder<br \/>\nAnd parts of me are not exactly new.<br \/>\nMy left knee aches if I do too much sitting,<br \/>\nMy right knee clicks if I run up the stairs.<br \/>\nThe march of time is cruelly unremitting<br \/>\nAnd marked by streaks of wiry, greying hairs.<br \/>\nThe physicists say entropy increases;<br \/>\nA broken cup can&#8217;t mend itself by chance.<br \/>\nThe universe demands my forehead creases<br \/>\nAnd eating lunch can put me in a trance.<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 But getting old still seems a heartless lie<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I don&#8217;t believe in Anno Domini!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignoring Reality by cricketjeff on December 28, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved They say that year by year I&#8217;m getting older, Which seems to be a silly thing to do. My memories demand a larger folder And parts of me are not exactly new. My left knee aches if I do too much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5278","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5278","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=5278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6229,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5278\/revisions\/6229"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}