{"id":3638,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3638"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","slug":"lost-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/lost-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Lost opportunities<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 23, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWe walked beside the river and we talked about the rain<br \/>\nWe should have kissed and walked across the sky<br \/>\nWe donned our boots and walking gear and strode along the lane<br \/>\nWhy must I be so reticent and shy?<br \/>\nThe years I knew you as a friend and loved you secretly<br \/>\nI should have told the world the truth and asked on bended knee<\/p>\n<p>We went to watch the football and to concerts on the beach<br \/>\nWe should have stayed at home and gone to bed<br \/>\nWe teetered on the edge when perfect love was just in reach<br \/>\nI cannot get the waste out of my head<br \/>\nAnd now you have a lover and I&#8217;ve lost my only chance<br \/>\nTo live a life of romance with a partner for the dance<\/p>\n<p>We still will walk and talk away as friends will always do<br \/>\nWe haven&#8217;t lost the things we&#8217;ve always had<br \/>\nWe should have been a couple but I blew my chance with you<br \/>\nFor little things in life we should be glad<br \/>\nBut I can not forget that I have lost the perfect life<br \/>\nWhy was I such a fool I know you should have been my wife<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nJust a sad story, not mine [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost opportunities by cricketjeff on February 23, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved We walked beside the river and we talked about the rain We should have kissed and walked across the sky We donned our boots and walking gear and strode along the lane Why must I be so reticent and shy? The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3638","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3638","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=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7869,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3638\/revisions\/7869"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}