{"id":3515,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3515"},"modified":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","slug":"choosing-the-path","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/c-poems\/choosing-the-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing the path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Choosing the path<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 10, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[A photograph of two woodland paths diverging by the contest host<br \/>\nfortyninereasons]<\/p>\n<p>We walk along the paths of life and sometimes have to choose<br \/>\nTwo options seem to call with equal weight<br \/>\nWhat senses can inform our choice what compass can we use<br \/>\nThe price of error can be far too great<br \/>\nThe paths diverge the time has come no option to refuse<br \/>\nSo trust to luck and hope for love not hate<br \/>\nEach path may seem to be the better way<br \/>\nBut only time will give the chance to say<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t turn back for life goes on and so we look ahead<br \/>\nAnd have to live with how the game was played<br \/>\nAll day we strive to build our life at night we lie in bed<br \/>\nAnd have to sleep however it was made<br \/>\nWe carry on and do our best until we wake up dead<br \/>\nThe end to all the pointless masquerade<br \/>\nThe best that we can hope is on the way<br \/>\nWe helped to show our friends a brighter day<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe prompt is the picture, a photograph of two woodland paths diverging by the<br \/>\ncontest host fortyninereasons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choosing the path by cricketjeff on January 10, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [A photograph of two woodland paths diverging by the contest host fortyninereasons] We walk along the paths of life and sometimes have to choose Two options seem to call with equal weight What senses can inform our choice what compass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9696,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3515","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3515","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=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7992,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3515\/revisions\/7992"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}