{"id":5617,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5617"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","slug":"the-praise-of-the-crowd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-praise-of-the-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Praise of the Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Praise of the Crowd<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 17, 2017.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nHe promised the Moon and he just didn&#8217;t care<br \/>\nFulfilment would finish the World.<br \/>\nHe knew he was lying, but thought all was fair<br \/>\nIn getting his banner unfurled.<br \/>\nSuch naked ambition should not be allowed,<br \/>\nHe sought only glory and praise from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>He knew every fact had been faked by the fools<br \/>\nWho laboured in sanity&#8217;s name.<br \/>\nEndangered our futures by breaking the rules,<br \/>\nKnew there was no downside to fame.<br \/>\nA clown and a bad one, but he&#8217;s standing proud,<br \/>\nHe only believes in the praise of the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>When history views him it may seem he lost<br \/>\nBy winning the fight for the prize.<br \/>\nIn power you sometimes must stump up the cost<br \/>\nReality sees through the lies.<br \/>\nBut rose tinted spectacles leave him unbowed<br \/>\nWho cares about truth, when there&#8217;s praise from the crowd!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nTo the theme of &#8220;popularism&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Praise of the Crowd by cricketjeff on September 17, 2017.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved He promised the Moon and he just didn&#8217;t care Fulfilment would finish the World. He knew he was lying, but thought all was fair In getting his banner unfurled. Such naked ambition should not be allowed, He sought [&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-5617","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5617","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=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5891,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5617\/revisions\/5891"}],"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=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}