{"id":3069,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3069"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:47:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:47:40","slug":"now-i-can-fly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/n-poems\/now-i-can-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Now I can fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Now I can fly<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 1, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWithout you I wouldn&#8217;t have wanted to fly<br \/>\nYou showed me the sky was just waiting for me<br \/>\nI stretched out my arms and I gave it a try<br \/>\nIn just a few moments I found I was free<\/p>\n<p>Together we danced on the top of each cloud<br \/>\nAnd juggled with stars as they shone every night<br \/>\nYou showed me the games that each talent allowed<br \/>\nAnd told me that all of my actions were right<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re learning to fly as we&#8217;re drifting through life<br \/>\nAnd all of our efforts are bent to this end<br \/>\nThe tethers that bound me you cut with a knife<br \/>\nAnd showed me the tools that I&#8217;d need to ascend<\/p>\n<p>You lead me to pleasures I couldn&#8217;t have found<br \/>\nWithout you I know I&#8217;d be stuck to the ground<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nAn 11 syllable tetrameter sonnet with Shakespearian rhyme I guess<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I can fly by cricketjeff on August 1, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Without you I wouldn&#8217;t have wanted to fly You showed me the sky was just waiting for me I stretched out my arms and I gave it a try In just a few moments I found I was free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9730,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3069","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3069","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=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8439,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3069\/revisions\/8439"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}