{"id":2963,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2963"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","slug":"picnic-for-two","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/picnic-for-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Picnic for two."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Picnic for two.<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 7, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe sun pours through the windows and it makes the kitchen smile<br \/>\nWith strawberries and cream and lemonade<br \/>\nA tall glass jug is glinting, you will see it in a while<br \/>\nAs you sit to eat the picnic I have made<br \/>\nBeneath our tree I&#8217;ve spread a rug, we&#8217;ll laze in dappled shade<br \/>\nAnd eat our fill of tasty summer snacks<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll listen to the sweetest tunes that any band has played<br \/>\nThen set about relaxing on our backs<\/p>\n<p>The birds will sing so happily, and hope we leave some crumbs<br \/>\nWhile we just smile and listen to their song<br \/>\nThen holding hands and chatting like the best of teenage chums<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll wait until the evening comes along<br \/>\nThe lemonade has long since gone, so now we drink white wine<br \/>\nThe air is getting cooler all the time<br \/>\nAs sunset is approaching I am hoping for a sign<br \/>\nThat loving you tonight is not a crime<\/p>\n<p>The Queen of all the fairies must be sitting on her throne<br \/>\nAnd granting me the wish to own my dream<br \/>\nYou lean across and kiss me and you take the final scone<br \/>\nWe share it with a little jam and cream<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re lying so much closer as we both begin to kiss<br \/>\nThe moon and stars start shining from above<br \/>\nA pleasant summer picnic swiftly turns to scene of bliss<br \/>\nAnd I find that you and I are now in love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picnic for two. by cricketjeff on July 7, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The sun pours through the windows and it makes the kitchen smile With strawberries and cream and lemonade A tall glass jug is glinting, you will see it in a while As you sit to eat the picnic I have [&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-2963","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2963","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=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8547,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2963\/revisions\/8547"}],"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=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}