{"id":3175,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3175"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:52","slug":"three-words","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/three-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Three words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Three words<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 27, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nOne million lines of poetry<br \/>\nTen million pretty words<br \/>\nDescribing leaves upon a tree<br \/>\nAnd feathers on the birds<\/p>\n<p>One million verses cannot say<br \/>\nTen million words too few<br \/>\nTo sing the praises of the day<br \/>\nWhen you said &#8220;I love you&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The wonders Mother Nature grows<br \/>\nThe beauties she reveals<br \/>\nAre not as pretty as your nose<br \/>\nHarmonious as your squeals<\/p>\n<p>The best the world can give to me<br \/>\nIs mine you said tonight<br \/>\nFor every line in poetry<br \/>\nIs less than you can write<\/p>\n<p>The trees we praise in lyric verse<br \/>\nThe thrilling songs of birds<br \/>\nDisplay an aspect so much worse<br \/>\nThan you and those three words<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll raise my glass and toast you now<br \/>\nAnd tell you some thing new<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll come to you, I don&#8217;t know how<br \/>\nTo tell you I love you.<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nYou always have to write a love song before you go to sleep, it&#8217;s the rules!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three words by cricketjeff on August 27, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved One million lines of poetry Ten million pretty words Describing leaves upon a tree And feathers on the birds One million verses cannot say Ten million words too few To sing the praises of the day When you said &#8220;I love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3175","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3175","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=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8333,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3175\/revisions\/8333"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}