{"id":2764,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2764"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:36","slug":"my-rose-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/my-rose-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> My Rose<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 22, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI thought that you were always mine to hold<br \/>\nTo keep beside me through the trials of life<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d never part until we both grew old<br \/>\nFor sixty years we&#8217;d live as man and wife<\/p>\n<p>But such a love was never meant to be<br \/>\nWhen things got tough you could not take the pace<br \/>\nWithout you here I never can be free<br \/>\nNo other bloom will ever take your place<\/p>\n<p>A perfect rose that wilted in the heat<br \/>\nYour form it seems was just a fine disguise<br \/>\nBy any other name you&#8217;d smell as sweet<br \/>\nYet fade away before my very eyes<\/p>\n<p>A virus launched the meanest of attacks<br \/>\nYou melted like a rose that&#8217;s made from wax<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nNo it isn&#8217;t a real story, it is a contest entry, the prompt is the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Rose by cricketjeff on May 22, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved \u00a0 \u00a0 I thought that you were always mine to hold To keep beside me through the trials of life We&#8217;d never part until we both grew old For sixty years we&#8217;d live as man and wife But such a love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2764","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2764","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=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8744,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2764\/revisions\/8744"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}