{"id":2402,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2402"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-tree-we-grew","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-tree-we-grew\/","title":{"rendered":"The tree we grew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The tree we grew<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 14, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nFor twenty years our apple tree has grown<br \/>\nAnd given fruit up to the very top,<br \/>\nNow year by year we have a finer crop,<br \/>\nEach apple with a style all of its own.<\/p>\n<p>The pip that sired the tree was surely sown<br \/>\nIn soil providing all that saplings need.<br \/>\nArdent for the sun, it grew at speed.<br \/>\nAt twenty years an adult fully grown.<\/p>\n<p>The seed was laid in earth when Sam was born.<br \/>\nWe tried to show him all that life could be,<br \/>\nHe took what we could give and made it right.<br \/>\nSet out upon his path at early dawn,<br \/>\nAlready striding far ahead of me,<br \/>\nTo harvest such a crop before his night.<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nCloser yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The son, and the tree, in question are 25 and still going strong. There are<br \/>\ndifferent fruit trees for each of our four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tree we grew by cricketjeff on February 14, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved For twenty years our apple tree has grown And given fruit up to the very top, Now year by year we have a finer crop, Each apple with a style all of its own. The pip that sired the [&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-2402","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2402","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=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9106,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2402\/revisions\/9106"}],"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=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}