{"id":2274,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2274"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-gift-of-rain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-gift-of-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"The gift of rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The gift of rain<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 16, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAs night and day conspired to fill my hours<br \/>\nAnd love was just a memory in mind.<br \/>\nI sheltered for a while from passing showers<br \/>\nAnd came across a face so warm and kind.<\/p>\n<p>We sat and spoke each other&#8217;s day away.<br \/>\nEach moment that we spent was joy for me.<br \/>\nI listened to each word you had to say.<br \/>\nThe day you changed my life so perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>The moment I first heard your lovely voice.<br \/>\nI knew my life would never be the same.<br \/>\nI hoped that you would come to make the choice.<br \/>\nTo take my hand and then to take my name.<\/p>\n<p>In nature rain refreshes all of life,<br \/>\nA passing shower has brought to me a wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gift of rain by cricketjeff on January 16, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved As night and day conspired to fill my hours And love was just a memory in mind. I sheltered for a while from passing showers And came across a face so warm and kind. We sat and spoke each [&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-2274","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2274","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=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9235,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2274\/revisions\/9235"}],"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=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}