{"id":5332,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5332"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:45:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:45:11","slug":"back-to-cricket","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/b-poems\/back-to-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Cricket!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Back to Cricket!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 7, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe Oval rings to Sussex playing Surrey<br \/>\nThe music of the willow wand in spring<br \/>\nThe cricket season sees me in a hurry<br \/>\nTo witness all that summertime can bring<\/p>\n<p>When I was young a different band of heroes<br \/>\nDistracted me from studying in school<br \/>\nAnd opposition batsmen making zeros<br \/>\nIs better than avoiding being a fool<\/p>\n<p>This morning England finished off Sri Lanka<br \/>\nBut that was far away, and I am here.<br \/>\nA Surrey win will raise the season&#8217;s anchor<br \/>\nAnd raise my hopes that this could be our year.<\/p>\n<p>The county season starts and all is well<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s farewell to the winter months of Hell!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe world is a better place during the cricket season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to Cricket! by cricketjeff on April 7, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The Oval rings to Sussex playing Surrey The music of the willow wand in spring The cricket season sees me in a hurry To witness all that summertime can bring When I was young a different band of heroes Distracted [&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-5332","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5332","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=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6176,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5332\/revisions\/6176"}],"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=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}