{"id":5561,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5561"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:46:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:46:32","slug":"my-treasure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/my-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"My Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> My Treasure<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 1, 2016.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn Hay on Wye<br \/>\nalmost in Wales.<br \/>\nI once wasted two perfect days<br \/>\nof undiluted delight.<br \/>\nsearching for something<br \/>\nthat nobody<br \/>\nwould ever<br \/>\nneed to read.<\/p>\n<p>In the fifth dingy shop<br \/>\nI found it.<br \/>\nAt the end of a shelf<br \/>\nhidden behind Boswell&#8217;s &#8220;Life of Samuel Johnson,&#8221;<br \/>\na slim volume,<br \/>\nanonymous beige<br \/>\ntext faded<br \/>\nthe meaning lost<\/p>\n<p>Seven pages from the end<br \/>\na line drawing<br \/>\nshowing the cylinder block<br \/>\nof a steam locomotive<br \/>\nthat nobody ever built.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThere are more miles of second had books in Hay-on-Wye than in any other town<br \/>\non Earth, go there!<\/p>\n<p>77 words, but I&#8217;m not sure it is free verse, or indeed any sort of verse at<br \/>\nall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Treasure by cricketjeff on June 1, 2016.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In Hay on Wye almost in Wales. I once wasted two perfect days of undiluted delight. searching for something that nobody would ever need to read. In the fifth dingy shop I found it. At the end of a shelf hidden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5561","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5561","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=5561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5948,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5561\/revisions\/5948"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}