{"id":2748,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2748"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","slug":"longing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/longing\/","title":{"rendered":"Longing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Longing<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 18, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI long to hold you in my arms and dance beneath the moon<br \/>\nTo spin you round the garden to a soft romantic tune<br \/>\nI want to cook your dinner then to sit and eat with you<br \/>\nTo see you taste the pleasures that are known to far too few<br \/>\nTo pour for you a glass of wine and watch it kiss your lips<br \/>\nAnd toast you in its magic while I kiss your finger tips<br \/>\nTo drown within your warm embrace and love you tenderly<br \/>\nAnd keep you in that special place reserved for you and me<br \/>\nI yearn to hear you breathing as you sleep beside my head<br \/>\nTo lie awake and gaze at you relaxing in my bed<br \/>\nThough I have never met you in your land across the sea<br \/>\nIt is only when I&#8217;m with you that my spirit can be free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longing by cricketjeff on May 18, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I long to hold you in my arms and dance beneath the moon To spin you round the garden to a soft romantic tune I want to cook your dinner then to sit and eat with you To see you taste the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2748","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2748","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=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8760,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2748\/revisions\/8760"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}