{"id":3542,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3542"},"modified":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","slug":"crushed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/c-poems\/crushed\/","title":{"rendered":"Crushed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Crushed<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 19, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/587.html]<\/p>\n<p>In sleep I see a vision far away<br \/>\nAs though through water gentle as the night<br \/>\nA pair of eyes that make me want to stay<br \/>\nAnd live a life forever in their sight<\/p>\n<p>The dream returns each night to torture me<br \/>\nNo man can know who wears the sweet disguise<br \/>\nA mystery much deeper than the sea<br \/>\nIs lost within the soul behind those eyes<\/p>\n<p>Awake I walk as though I were possessed<br \/>\nA mermaid&#8217;s call has swept away my mind<br \/>\nMy only thought will never be repressed<br \/>\nThe eyes I dreamed are all I need to find<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve lost my heart and now I wait to die<br \/>\nI&#8217;m crushed beneath the beauty of an eye<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe prompt is the picture:-pic: Eyes of a Mermaid by Whisperwings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crushed by cricketjeff on January 19, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/587.html] In sleep I see a vision far away As though through water gentle as the night A pair of eyes that make me want to stay And live a life forever in their sight The dream returns each night to torture [&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-3542","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3542","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=3542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7965,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3542\/revisions\/7965"}],"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=3542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}