{"id":2808,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2808"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:40:39","slug":"amongst-the-thorns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/amongst-the-thorns\/","title":{"rendered":"Amongst the thorns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Amongst the thorns<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 2, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA single rose grows in a bed of thorns<br \/>\nAlone it shines with beauty all can see<br \/>\nThe weeds resent the love the flower spawns<br \/>\nAnd won&#8217;t consent to let the rose grow free<\/p>\n<p>There are a few who know where she is hid<br \/>\nAnd they may try to cut the thorns away<br \/>\nThese supplicants get closer on each bid<br \/>\nWill they arrive in time to save the day<\/p>\n<p>The gardener has found the rose at last<br \/>\nAnd works to keep the spreading weeds in check<br \/>\nThe danger to the bush has not yet passed<br \/>\nBut I believe that there will be no wreck<\/p>\n<p>Show passion for the place where beauty grows<br \/>\nSoon everyone will see my Texas Rose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst the thorns by cricketjeff on June 2, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A single rose grows in a bed of thorns Alone it shines with beauty all can see The weeds resent the love the flower spawns And won&#8217;t consent to let the rose grow free There are a few who know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2808","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2808","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=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8700,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2808\/revisions\/8700"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}