{"id":5753,"date":"2023-11-26T20:24:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5753"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"inner-peace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/inner-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Inner Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Inner Peace<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 18, 2022.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nNow in this life there is no &#8220;inner peace&#8221; &#8211;<br \/>\nAs long as we survive we have to strive.<br \/>\nThe troubles of the World don&#8217;t ever cease<br \/>\nAnd fighting back is what makes us alive..<\/p>\n<p>Today I felt contentment, in the main,<br \/>\nWe spent the day at cricket &#8211; Surrey won!<br \/>\nBut I saw dreadful headlines from the train<br \/>\nReality can spike the finest fun.<\/p>\n<p>Inside my mind so many thoughts contest &#8211;<br \/>\nMy family and friends will make me smile.<br \/>\nWhile wars and famines drive away the best &#8211;<br \/>\nBut maybe I&#8217;ll find &#8220;peace-lite&#8221; for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I love this World &#8211; the only one we&#8217;ve got &#8211;<br \/>\nBut far too much of it has gone to rot!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA comment from FrenchGirl about finding peace inside to inspire poetry brought<br \/>\nthis to my mind. Thanks for the inspiration Jo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inner Peace by cricketjeff on April 18, 2022.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Now in this life there is no &#8220;inner peace&#8221; &#8211; As long as we survive we have to strive. The troubles of the World don&#8217;t ever cease And fighting back is what makes us alive.. Today I felt contentment, in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5753","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5753","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=5753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5756,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5753\/revisions\/5756"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}