{"id":2564,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2564"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","slug":"blessed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/b-poems\/blessed\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Blessed<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 29, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA London morning bright and clear<br \/>\nThe first week of this brand New Year<br \/>\nWhile Spring explodes in golden sun<br \/>\nThe great tits fight for nuts and fun<\/p>\n<p>The flowers fill the beds with fire<br \/>\nNarcissi trumpet their desire<br \/>\nHyacinth and crocus too<br \/>\nFill my heart with thoughts of you<\/p>\n<p>The ancient way to mark the year<br \/>\nIn Springtime not in Winter&#8217;s drear<br \/>\nProvides a start to lift the soul<br \/>\nA clearer shot at open goal<\/p>\n<p>I cannot think a better way<br \/>\nTo start anew on sweet spring day<br \/>\nSo as the Robin puffs his chest<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll start my year, by nature blessed.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nTraditionally in England the New Year was counted from Lady Day (25th March)<br \/>\nstill marked by the financial year. By that reckoning today starts the first<br \/>\nweek of 2008, Happy New Year everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed by cricketjeff on March 29, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A London morning bright and clear The first week of this brand New Year While Spring explodes in golden sun The great tits fight for nuts and fun The flowers fill the beds with fire Narcissi trumpet their desire Hyacinth and crocus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2564","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2564","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=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8944,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2564\/revisions\/8944"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}