{"id":5516,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5516"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-half-mad-half-minute","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-half-mad-half-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"The Half Mad Half Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Half Mad Half Minute<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 16, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI thought that I could spare you half a minute,<br \/>\nTo pen a poem filled with all you need.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m pretty sure you&#8217;ll find the content in it<br \/>\nUndamaged by the way I wrote at speed.<br \/>\nAbsurdity is such an insane notion<br \/>\nTo write a verse that differs from the rest<br \/>\nMost poets here devote their whole devotion<br \/>\nTo making their absurdity not best.<\/p>\n<p>This verse of mine will be a great acrostic<br \/>\nBut only for a word that no-one knows<br \/>\nAnd writing it was surely diagnostic<br \/>\nOf injuries sustained from head-bound blows.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m stopping now, but not because it&#8217;s finished,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m stopping &#8217;cause to carry on is wrong.<br \/>\nAnd as you&#8217;ve read your sanity&#8217;s diminished<br \/>\nWhile I&#8217;ve composed a bloody awful song!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nI think I obeyed all the rules<br \/>\nSince they were intended for fools<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m pretty sure you won&#8217;t see<br \/>\nA fool any bigger than me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Half Mad Half Minute by cricketjeff on October 16, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I thought that I could spare you half a minute, To pen a poem filled with all you need. I&#8217;m pretty sure you&#8217;ll find the content in it Undamaged by the way I wrote at speed. Absurdity is [&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-5516","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5516","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=5516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5992,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5516\/revisions\/5992"}],"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=5516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}