{"id":3548,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3548"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-date","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-date\/","title":{"rendered":"The date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The date<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 21, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAt a caf\u00e9, by the river, as the Moon began to wane,<br \/>\nWhere we sat as simple lovers after early evening rain.<br \/>\nAll the moonlight was reflected in the beauty of your eyes<br \/>\nAnd you picked that special moment to give me your sweet surprise.<\/p>\n<p>There was wine to drink, and music, and the clouds had rolled away,<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;d walked beside the water and we&#8217;d spent a perfect day.<br \/>\nCuddled close when it was raining, walking free beneath the sun<br \/>\nFor a English day in springtime can be filled with so much fun.<\/p>\n<p>Now the evening was a warm one at the table on its own,<br \/>\nWhere we sat and contemplated all the ways our lives had grown.<br \/>\nNow the waiters left us sitting and the world went off to sleep<br \/>\nI was gazing at perfection as I found your eyes were deep.<\/p>\n<p>In your turn you looked serenely at my face so close to yours<br \/>\nAnd the thoughts I saw were forming seemed to open all the doors.<br \/>\nFar away from past encounters, days like this were wholly new,<br \/>\nAnd the basis for the difference was today was spent with you.<\/p>\n<p>As our fingers slowly mingled and our chatter slowed and died<br \/>\nThere were feelings I was growing from a seed I found inside.<br \/>\nThe surprise that I have mentioned then occasioned ecstasy<br \/>\nWhen you whispered, oh so softly, you were now in love with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The date by cricketjeff on January 21, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved At a caf\u00e9, by the river, as the Moon began to wane, Where we sat as simple lovers after early evening rain. All the moonlight was reflected in the beauty of your eyes And you picked that special moment to give [&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-3548","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3548","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=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7959,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3548\/revisions\/7959"}],"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=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}