{"id":2636,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2636"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","slug":"picking-the-flowers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/picking-the-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking the flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Picking the flowers<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 11, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n                                       \u00a0<br \/>\n                                       \u00a0<br \/>\n              Every flower is placed so I may move it with a kiss<br \/>\n        And all the while I&#8217;m working you will find the path to bliss\u00a0<br \/>\n            And when each petal is removed my prize will be arrayed<br \/>\n            Before my eye I know I&#8217;ll find perfection is displayed<br \/>\n                                       \u00a0<br \/>\n       The time it took to place the blooms was filled with love I know<br \/>\n         \u00a0And every one so placed that you would put yourself on show<br \/>\n         So when my lips are at their task you&#8217;ll know the love I feel<br \/>\n             For I am\u00a0 lost in wonder at the beauties I&#8217;ll reveal<br \/>\n                                       \u00a0<br \/>\n         And then at last you&#8217;ll take my arms and hold me close to you<br \/>\n              There isn&#8217;t any need for you to tell me what to do<br \/>\n         Our love beneath the petals will be love that paints the sky<br \/>\n             A perfect piece of gardening no plantsman could deny<br \/>\n                                       \u00a0<br \/>\n            There isn&#8217;t any need for me to write more of this night<br \/>\n      Dear reader go and choose your blooms, and know your life is right<br \/>\n                                       \u00a0<br \/>\n                                       \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picking the flowers by cricketjeff on April 11, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved \u00a0 \u00a0 Every flower is placed so I may move it with a kiss And all the while I&#8217;m working you will find the path to bliss\u00a0 And when each petal is removed my prize will be arrayed Before my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9734,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2636","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2636","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=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8870,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2636\/revisions\/8870"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}