{"id":5447,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5447"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-gnostic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-gnostic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gnostic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Gnostic<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 14, 2014.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA man I knew was never wrong &#8211;<br \/>\nHe told us so the whole day long.<br \/>\nHe filled his speech with hate and cant,<br \/>\nAn expert in the art of rant.<\/p>\n<p>He knew that every other view<br \/>\nWas seeing all the World askew,<br \/>\nNo honest folk thought other ways<br \/>\nBut lying bastards filled his gaze.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents fuelled with arrogance<br \/>\nWere insects in a pointless dance<br \/>\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t need you I know I&#8217;m right<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re ignorant and full of spite&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We others who are not so sure,<br \/>\nWill never find his perfect cure,<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll labour long yet pointlessly<br \/>\nOur eyes aren&#8217;t blind so we can&#8217;t see.<\/p>\n<p>This man, and others of his ilk<br \/>\nTake bigotry as mothers&#8217; milk.<br \/>\nI merely wish the pompous arse<br \/>\nWould chance upon a looking glass!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gnostic by cricketjeff on May 14, 2014.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A man I knew was never wrong &#8211; He told us so the whole day long. He filled his speech with hate and cant, An expert in the art of rant. He knew that every other view Was seeing all the [&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-5447","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5447","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=5447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6061,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5447\/revisions\/6061"}],"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=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}