{"id":3641,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3641"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-ultimate-prize","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-ultimate-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"The ultimate prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The ultimate prize<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 24, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI wouldn&#8217;t sell your kisses for the wealth of all the world<br \/>\nNo man alive has riches like my own<br \/>\nThe vault that holds our memories is diamonded and pearled<br \/>\nEach moment that we shared, a precious stone<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t swap the life we&#8217;ve had for journeys through the stars<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve seen the sights explorers only dream<br \/>\nThe World my pay in trillions to erect a base on Mars<br \/>\nTo you and I how foolish that can seem<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t give away my love to any other wife<br \/>\nNo beauty Queen is rival to your face<br \/>\nThe vows we gave were never chains but bought a lease on life<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t be in any finer place<\/p>\n<p>The Kings and Queens of History will queue to take a bow<br \/>\nFor you and I have ruled a greater state<br \/>\nI won you as a foolish boy and I still hold you now<br \/>\nI also won that lottery called fate.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nFor thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings<br \/>\nthat then I scorn to change my state with kings.<br \/>\n&#8211; William Shakespeare<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmmmmm<br \/>\nThere must be someone out there who has a life like this!!!<\/p>\n<p>Whoever they are I think we all envy you [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/<br \/>\nhappy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ultimate prize by cricketjeff on February 24, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I wouldn&#8217;t sell your kisses for the wealth of all the world No man alive has riches like my own The vault that holds our memories is diamonded and pearled Each moment that we shared, a precious stone I wouldn&#8217;t [&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-3641","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3641","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=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7868,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3641\/revisions\/7868"}],"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=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}