{"id":5610,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5610"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","slug":"bathetic-battle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/b-poems\/bathetic-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Bathetic Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Bathetic Battle<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 27, 2017.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe dragons roared, the gladiators entered,<br \/>\nThe silent crowd could hardly bear to breathe;<br \/>\nThe focus of ten thousand people centred<br \/>\nOn one small space where drama had to seethe.<\/p>\n<p>A flash of flame reflected from the armour<br \/>\nOn flint-faced guards surrounding the affray,<br \/>\nThe frightened slave was born to be a farmer &#8211;<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll need a different set of skills today.<\/p>\n<p>The beasts leapt high with talons well extended,<br \/>\nThe cowering man stood trembling with his spear,<br \/>\nThe jeering crowd knew soon it would be ended<br \/>\nA gory painful death was very near.<\/p>\n<p>But bathos ruled, and as men dared to peep<br \/>\nThey saw the dragons settle down to sleep &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA sonnet to illustrate the word &#8220;Bathetic&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bathetic Battle by cricketjeff on July 27, 2017.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The dragons roared, the gladiators entered, The silent crowd could hardly bear to breathe; The focus of ten thousand people centred On one small space where drama had to seethe. A flash of flame reflected from the armour On flint-faced guards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5610","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5610","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=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5898,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5610\/revisions\/5898"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}