{"id":5334,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5334"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-up-side","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-up-side\/","title":{"rendered":"The Up Side?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Up Side?<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 9, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nBank holiday Mondays aren&#8217;t meant to be wet<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re sunshine and walks in the park<br \/>\nToday&#8217;s like the dentist, or dog to the vet<br \/>\nNot chasing your girl after dark<\/p>\n<p>There ought to be ice-cream and strawberries too<br \/>\nNot wrapping yourself in your coat<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t somebody somewhere show clouds what to do<br \/>\nBefore I need boots and a boat<\/p>\n<p>I want to see ladies in skirts up to here<br \/>\nNot bundles of bad-tempered rush<br \/>\nSo give me a sky that is totally clear<br \/>\nAnd then don&#8217;t get killed in the crush<\/p>\n<p>Bank holiday weather is getting me down<br \/>\nI have to go out in the murk<br \/>\nBut one thing about it still means I won&#8217;t frown<br \/>\nAt least it means I&#8217;m not at work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Up Side? by cricketjeff on April 9, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Bank holiday Mondays aren&#8217;t meant to be wet They&#8217;re sunshine and walks in the park Today&#8217;s like the dentist, or dog to the vet Not chasing your girl after dark There ought to be ice-cream and strawberries too Not wrapping [&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-5334","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5334","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=5334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6173,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5334\/revisions\/6173"}],"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=5334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}