{"id":3340,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3340"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-deepest-reddest-rose","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-deepest-reddest-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"The deepest reddest rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The deepest reddest rose<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 24, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn the high street, there&#8217;s a florist, and the florist had a rose<br \/>\nThe deepest reddest rose I ever saw<br \/>\nAnd I stopped outside the florist and I thought how my love grows<br \/>\nAnd I knew at once what every rose is for<br \/>\nSo I went into the florist and I bought the deep red rose<br \/>\nAnd I walked within my mind to where you live<br \/>\nFor it isn&#8217;t in the giving of the gift that loving grows<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s at the time you know just what to give<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;m writing this to tell you that I bought the deep red rose<br \/>\nThe deepest reddest rose I ever saw<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m writing this to tell you that within me loving grows<br \/>\nAnd I knew at once what every word was for<br \/>\nIn my hand I hold for safety to the stem that holds the rose<br \/>\nAnd I dream that I am living where you live<br \/>\nThough this rose is slowly dying you must know my loving grows<br \/>\nAnd this verse is all the gift that I can give<br \/>\nSo my love please take my offer that is redder than the rose<br \/>\nFor you know within your heart what love is for<br \/>\nPlease just tell me in a poem that your loving also grows<br \/>\nAnd our love&#8217;s the greatest love we ever saw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deepest reddest rose by cricketjeff on October 24, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In the high street, there&#8217;s a florist, and the florist had a rose The deepest reddest rose I ever saw And I stopped outside the florist and I thought how my love grows And I knew at once what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3340","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3340","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=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8167,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3340\/revisions\/8167"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}