{"id":3328,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3328"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:31:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:31:46","slug":"a-little-house-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-or-an-poems\/a-little-house-in-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"A little house in the snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A little house in the snow<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 20, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe snows that fell that winter were the worst for many years<br \/>\nAnd icy winds soon whipped each breath away<br \/>\nBut brandy by the fireside was the answer to her fears<br \/>\nBecause the man she loved had come to stay<\/p>\n<p>The trees were dark and leafless and the river hard as stone<br \/>\nEach day they went together for the wood<br \/>\nWhen winter&#8217;s at its harshest you don&#8217;t want to be alone<br \/>\nAnd brandy with a lover&#8217;s always good<\/p>\n<p>Each night the snow grew deeper and their love grew deeper still<br \/>\nInside the tiny house beneath the trees<br \/>\nThey lived within their loving and of loving took their fill<br \/>\nEach winter night she whispered to him &#8220;please&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In spring the two were married and they lived and loved the same<br \/>\nThe little house soon grew another room<br \/>\nThe love they felt all winter was the love they held to blame<br \/>\nAs through the summer months she had to bloom<\/p>\n<p>Next winter there were three of them so snug around the fire<br \/>\nAnd brandy kept the lovers at their play<br \/>\nWhen baby went to bed each night they gave in to desire<br \/>\nI&#8217;m pretty sure another&#8217;s on the way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little house in the snow by cricketjeff on October 20, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The snows that fell that winter were the worst for many years And icy winds soon whipped each breath away But brandy by the fireside was the answer to her fears Because the man she loved had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9744,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3328","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3328","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=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8180,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3328\/revisions\/8180"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}