{"id":2831,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2831"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"in-memory-of-a-perfect-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/in-memory-of-a-perfect-love\/","title":{"rendered":"In memory of a perfect love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In memory of a perfect love<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 7, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIt seems the world can laugh and wear a smile,<br \/>\nWhile all I see is veiled in monochrome.<br \/>\nMost other men are happy all the while,<br \/>\nYet I just sigh and cry here in my home.<br \/>\nI cannot face the future without you<br \/>\nAnd yet it&#8217;s certain that will be my fate.<br \/>\nThe moment that you died I clearly knew<br \/>\nThe rest of life would be the saddest wait.<br \/>\nBut never pity me for I was raised<br \/>\nMuch higher than the best of men can see.<br \/>\nI would not have one whit of pain erased<br \/>\nFor fear I would forget that you loved me.<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 I ran the race of life and won the gold,<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 You were the finest gift a man could hold.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nKahlil_Gibran_\u201c\u2026a_tear_and_a_smile\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would not exchange the sorrows of my heart<br \/>\nFor the joys of the multitude.<br \/>\nAnd I would not have the tears that sadness makes<br \/>\nTo flow from my every part turn into laughter.<\/p>\n<p>I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In memory of a perfect love by cricketjeff on June 7, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved It seems the world can laugh and wear a smile, While all I see is veiled in monochrome. Most other men are happy all the while, Yet I just sigh and cry here in my home. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2831","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2831","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=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8677,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2831\/revisions\/8677"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}