{"id":5603,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5603"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","slug":"only-one-end","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/o-poems\/only-one-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Only one end."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Only one end.<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 8, 2017.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWith an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s only one outcome I see,<br \/>\nSince most of humanity&#8217;s largely uncouth<br \/>\nRough justice is one certainty.<br \/>\nThe worst and the best will be caught in the trap<br \/>\nAnd errors are bound to be made<br \/>\nA slap in the face brings another harsh slap<br \/>\nA blade means you&#8217;ll die by the blade.<br \/>\nWhen justice goes wrong then the judge will be judged<br \/>\nHis error turned back on himself<br \/>\nUnless you are happy to have your rule fudged<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s soon no-one left on the shelf<br \/>\nWhen every last citizen&#8217;s jumped through your hoop<br \/>\nThe land&#8217;s full of blind people living on soup &#8230;<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nFor myself I wish to be a better person than the lowest criminal. And who gets<br \/>\nto judge anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only one end. by cricketjeff on June 8, 2017.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved With an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth There&#8217;s only one outcome I see, Since most of humanity&#8217;s largely uncouth Rough justice is one certainty. The worst and the best will be caught in the trap [&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-5603","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5603","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=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5905,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5603\/revisions\/5905"}],"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=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}