{"id":3302,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3302"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:53:32","slug":"paradise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/p-poems\/paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Paradise<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 5, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhen dreams, half-heard, were all the hopes I had<br \/>\nAnd love a rumour from a foreign land.<br \/>\nThere didn&#8217;t seem a reason to be sad<br \/>\nThe best of life I could not understand.<\/p>\n<p>Before we met I did not know my mind,<br \/>\nCould never have believed what I now know.<br \/>\nFor then my life was surely all behind<br \/>\nA memory of passion long ago.<\/p>\n<p>But life was changed in words from far away<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learnt the subtle skills of happiness<br \/>\nI welcome things I dreaded yesterday<br \/>\nI used to dream of love I now possess<\/p>\n<p>My love you make me whole and show me how<br \/>\nTo find the paradise in here and now<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t go to sleep without writing something!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradise by cricketjeff on October 5, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved When dreams, half-heard, were all the hopes I had And love a rumour from a foreign land. There didn&#8217;t seem a reason to be sad The best of life I could not understand. Before we met I did not know my mind, [&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-3302","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3302","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=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8206,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3302\/revisions\/8206"}],"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=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}