{"id":5618,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5618"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:06:35","slug":"the-power-of-words","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-power-of-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Power of Words<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 29, 2017.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI cannot remember a time<br \/>\nWhen I didn&#8217;t think words were sublime<br \/>\nIf it&#8217;s beautifully phrased<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll never be phased<br \/>\nBut ugly expression&#8217;s a crime!<\/p>\n<p>The views you express will sound sweeter<br \/>\nIf uttered in pluperfect meter<br \/>\nAnd rhyme if you can<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll think your plan<br \/>\nWill be the next universe beater<\/p>\n<p>Then drive your point home with a pun<br \/>\nSo dreadful it&#8217;s certain to stun<br \/>\nMake all that you say full<br \/>\nOf language that&#8217;s playful<br \/>\nAnd trust me you&#8217;ve already won!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Power of Words by cricketjeff on September 29, 2017.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I cannot remember a time When I didn&#8217;t think words were sublime If it&#8217;s beautifully phrased I&#8217;ll never be phased But ugly expression&#8217;s a crime! The views you express will sound sweeter If uttered in pluperfect meter And rhyme [&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-5618","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5618","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=5618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5890,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5618\/revisions\/5890"}],"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=5618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}