{"id":3730,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3730"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","slug":"lifting-the-veil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/lifting-the-veil\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifting the veil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Lifting the veil<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 25, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI could not know that I was almost blind<br \/>\nI never saw the beauty of the world<br \/>\nYou touched my soul and opened up my mind<br \/>\nAnd found a me that I&#8217;d kept tightly furled<\/p>\n<p>The meals I ate were nice enough, but bland<br \/>\nBut now I know the savour of a spice<br \/>\nYou showed me that a man must understand<br \/>\nNutrition on its own does not suffice<\/p>\n<p>If you should leave I know the world would die<br \/>\nThe sun can only shine when you are near<br \/>\nYou paint the flowers and teach the birds to fly<br \/>\nThe rest of life is such a thin veneer<\/p>\n<p>Before we met the world was dressed in grey<br \/>\nBut now I see new colours every day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifting the veil by cricketjeff on March 25, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I could not know that I was almost blind I never saw the beauty of the world You touched my soul and opened up my mind And found a me that I&#8217;d kept tightly furled The meals I ate were [&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-3730","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3730","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=3730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7777,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3730\/revisions\/7777"}],"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=3730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}