{"id":2252,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2252"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","slug":"my-grandad","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/my-grandad\/","title":{"rendered":"My Grandad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> My Grandad<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 10, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhen my eldest son was born<br \/>\nMy Grandad beamed with joy.<br \/>\nHe now had a great-grandson,<br \/>\nWith lineage all boy.<br \/>\nOur eldest wears Great-Grandad&#8217;s name,<br \/>\nWhich made my Grandad smile,<br \/>\nIt took away the pain of life<br \/>\nJust for a little while.<br \/>\nAnd then his goals had all been met,<br \/>\nIn months he crept away.<br \/>\nBut I can hold inside my heart<br \/>\nThe memory of that day.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very sad when people die,<br \/>\nWhen they are those you love.<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t matter if, for you,<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re dead or &#8220;up above&#8221;.<br \/>\nAll I&#8217;ve found to comfort me<br \/>\nIs think of him before<br \/>\nThe man I loved was fit and well<br \/>\nNot old and frail and sore.<br \/>\nSo when somebody says his name,<br \/>\nOr the funny things he said.<br \/>\nI do not feel the need to cry<br \/>\nI smile for him instead.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nNeeds editting so will be doing that tonight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Grandad by cricketjeff on January 10, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved When my eldest son was born My Grandad beamed with joy. He now had a great-grandson, With lineage all boy. Our eldest wears Great-Grandad&#8217;s name, Which made my Grandad smile, It took away the pain of life Just for a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2252","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=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9256,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2252\/revisions\/9256"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}