{"id":5541,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5541"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","slug":"the-sirens-curse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-sirens-curse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Siren\\&#8217;s Curse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Siren&#8217;s Curse<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 30, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nShe looks at me and suddenly the day<br \/>\nHas faded into dark and sleepless night.<br \/>\nHer merest word steals sanity away<br \/>\nAnd substitutes a meaningless delight.<\/p>\n<p>At other times I hear her name and freeze<br \/>\nA shiver fills my mind and I recoil.<br \/>\nToo beautiful to put me at my ease,<br \/>\nMy muse, my mistress, slave and sharpest foil.<\/p>\n<p>I like to think I&#8217;m rational at base<br \/>\nMy mind not prone to superstitious whim.<br \/>\nSo how can I explain the way her face<br \/>\nTurns me into a fish that cannot swim.<\/p>\n<p>The curse of love makes morons of the wise<br \/>\nThe moment they first drown in devil&#8217;s eyes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Siren&#8217;s Curse by cricketjeff on December 30, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved She looks at me and suddenly the day Has faded into dark and sleepless night. Her merest word steals sanity away And substitutes a meaningless delight. At other times I hear her name and freeze A shiver fills my mind [&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-5541","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5541","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=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5968,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5541\/revisions\/5968"}],"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=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}