{"id":5497,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5497"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","slug":"our-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/o-poems\/our-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Our Independence Day<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 3, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s independence day for every Brit!<br \/>\nTo celebrate the time we lost the chains<br \/>\nOccasioned by colonial growing pains<br \/>\nWhich no-one found the wisdom to remit.<\/p>\n<p>Though other colonies walked different ways<br \/>\nThe US was the first to cast adrift<br \/>\nBeginnings of a great strategic shift<br \/>\nThat rumbled slowly into modern days<\/p>\n<p>Brave German troops fought hard to stem the tide<br \/>\nOf freedom fighting terrorists back then,<br \/>\nBut now we smile and idolise these men<br \/>\nWho thought that laws were there to be denied.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny how a Nation changes views<br \/>\nDepending if it&#8217;s history or news &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nTongue firmly in cheek<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe not [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/grin.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Independence Day by cricketjeff on July 3, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved It&#8217;s independence day for every Brit! To celebrate the time we lost the chains Occasioned by colonial growing pains Which no-one found the wisdom to remit. Though other colonies walked different ways The US was the first to cast adrift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5497","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5497","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=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6012,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5497\/revisions\/6012"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}