{"id":3064,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3064"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","slug":"before-and-after","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/b-poems\/before-and-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Before and after"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Before and after<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 29, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nYou roll away the clouds that fill my sky<br \/>\nAnd paint my mind with shining drops of dew.<br \/>\nYou whisper and I know that I can fly;<br \/>\nWhat is the point of life without a you?<br \/>\nYou make me think of kissing in the rain,<br \/>\nOf rainbow hues and technicolor dreams,<br \/>\nOf secrets down a lonely country lane<br \/>\nAnd building little dams in mountain streams.<br \/>\nBefore I knew your name was life the same?<br \/>\nDid blackbirds sing to tell the sun to rise?<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t remember if I knew the game<br \/>\nBefore I found the answer in your eyes.<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Although my life will go on as before,<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 It&#8217;s better when there&#8217;s someone to adore.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nPunctuated now [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before and after by cricketjeff on July 29, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved You roll away the clouds that fill my sky And paint my mind with shining drops of dew. You whisper and I know that I can fly; What is the point of life without a you? You make me think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3064","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3064","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=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8443,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3064\/revisions\/8443"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}