{"id":2118,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2118"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:47","slug":"learning-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/learning-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Learning to fly<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 1, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nBefore you came I could not fly<br \/>\nThe joys of life would pass me by<br \/>\nWith broken wings I felt too shy<br \/>\nNow you&#8217;ve mended me<\/p>\n<p>Before I sang at dead of night<br \/>\nAnd hid away from places bright<br \/>\nYou placed me in the star&#8217;s spotlight<br \/>\nSince you attended me<\/p>\n<p>I thought that black was all I&#8217;d be<br \/>\nThat shadows were the place for me<br \/>\nYour love arrived and set me free<br \/>\nWhen you befriended me<\/p>\n<p>The blackbird in the Beatles song<br \/>\nFound his life was going wrong<br \/>\nBut he was perfect all along<br \/>\nAnd you extended me<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nInspired by Blackbird by Lennon\/McCartney (Actually Paul McCartney but<br \/>\nofficially by both)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning to fly by cricketjeff on December 1, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Before you came I could not fly The joys of life would pass me by With broken wings I felt too shy Now you&#8217;ve mended me Before I sang at dead of night And hid away from places bright You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2118","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=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9390,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2118\/revisions\/9390"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}