{"id":2631,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2631"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","slug":"overcoming-grief","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/o-poems\/overcoming-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Overcoming grief<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 11, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe night he died you came to me<br \/>\nAnd gently kissed me on my lips<br \/>\nAs I just lay in misery<br \/>\nYou slipped yourself across my hips<br \/>\nThen kissed the tears that left my eyes<br \/>\nAnd gently you made love to me<br \/>\nIt did not seem a great surprise<br \/>\nYou slowly woke my memory<br \/>\nThere was no lust just love so true<br \/>\nI held you close and thought of life<br \/>\nOf love for him and love for you<br \/>\nMy Grandfather and you my wife<\/p>\n<p>When I thought of him next day<br \/>\nMy thoughts were of the man I knew<br \/>\nYour love had washed the tears away<br \/>\nI placed him where I needed to<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sad he&#8217;s gone, so long ago<br \/>\nBut when I think of him I smile<br \/>\nThe Grandfather I used to know<br \/>\nYou helped me find in proper style<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll never think of him as pain<br \/>\nThe man who died so old and frail<br \/>\nI keep him as he was again<br \/>\nA memory that&#8217;s never stale<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI thought of my Grandfather, and remembered the night he died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overcoming grief by cricketjeff on April 11, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The night he died you came to me And gently kissed me on my lips As I just lay in misery You slipped yourself across my hips Then kissed the tears that left my eyes And gently you made love to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2631","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2631","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=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8877,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2631\/revisions\/8877"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}