{"id":5425,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5425"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:01:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:01:30","slug":"the-arrow-of-time","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-arrow-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arrow of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Arrow of Time<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 28, 2013.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIt would appear that time&#8217;s the one dimension<br \/>\nThat doesn&#8217;t have a retrograde extension;<br \/>\nI can take a walk and turn to left or right,<br \/>\nThen dig a hole or climb to change my height,<br \/>\nI can rush ahead or stumble in reverse<br \/>\nThen write about my foolishness in verse<br \/>\nBut however hard I try I find no way,<br \/>\nTo go to sleep and wake up yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>A symmetry thus broken is perplexing<br \/>\nAnd furthermore the rule is rather vexing!<br \/>\nI know I&#8217;d win the lottery each week<br \/>\nIf tomorrow me could find a way to speak<br \/>\nAnd all the wrongs of life could be undone<br \/>\nIf time was not the only one-way one.<br \/>\nJust think of all the games that we could play<br \/>\nIf we could only wake up yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arrow of Time by cricketjeff on August 28, 2013.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved It would appear that time&#8217;s the one dimension That doesn&#8217;t have a retrograde extension; I can take a walk and turn to left or right, Then dig a hole or climb to change my height, I can rush ahead [&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-5425","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5425","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=5425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6084,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5425\/revisions\/6084"}],"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=5425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}