{"id":5359,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5359"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","slug":"lunch-in-the-park-sonnet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/lunch-in-the-park-sonnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch in the Park -sonnet-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Lunch in the Park (sonnet)<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 28, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<\/p>\n<p>A pretty girl, undressed until it teases,<br \/>\nIs tanning through a peaceful lunchtime doze<br \/>\nWhile grass and trees are spreading wafts of sneezes<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re making up for all the days that froze<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0Some local kids have reinvented cricket<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0To fit the space where they&#8217;re allowed to play<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0A broken baby-buggy for the wicket<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0And every player has too much to say.<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m not here, I&#8217;m lost in distant dreaming,<br \/>\nAnother sunny day, another place,<br \/>\nWhere other kids are just as loudly screaming,<br \/>\nAnd, through closed eyes, where I can see your face.<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0There are no phones, no thieves of idle time<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Just lazy hazy days of love and rhyme<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nShakespearean sonnet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunch in the Park (sonnet) by cricketjeff on May 28, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A pretty girl, undressed until it teases, Is tanning through a peaceful lunchtime doze While grass and trees are spreading wafts of sneezes They&#8217;re making up for all the days that froze \u00a0 \u00a0Some local kids have reinvented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5359","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5359","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=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6149,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5359\/revisions\/6149"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}