{"id":5343,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5343"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:02","slug":"istanbul-evening","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/istanbul-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Istanbul Evening<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 5, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe view across to Asia fills with twinkling city lights<br \/>\nThat spread beyond the point of no return.<br \/>\nA swarm of ant-sized people flow around these balmy nights<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re chasing dreams too beautiful to spurn.<br \/>\nAnd lazily above us hangs the half-dark hazy Moon<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s watched me watch the city since the Turkish afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The flat black Sea of Marmora rocks flocks of ships to sleep<br \/>\nWhile bridge-lights dance a mesmerising show.<br \/>\nThe clouds meander aimlessly, like shaggy mountain sheep<br \/>\nUntroubled by the merriment below.<br \/>\nThe half-Moon smiles benignly, doesn&#8217;t try to hide her face<br \/>\nTwo thousand years of history cannot outshine her grace.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe scene from the roof bar at the Plaza Hotel on Mayday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul Evening by cricketjeff on May 5, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The view across to Asia fills with twinkling city lights That spread beyond the point of no return. A swarm of ant-sized people flow around these balmy nights They&#8217;re chasing dreams too beautiful to spurn. And lazily above us hangs the [&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-5343","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5343","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=5343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6165,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5343\/revisions\/6165"}],"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=5343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}