{"id":3744,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3744"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:03","slug":"the-rarest-gift","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-rarest-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"The rarest gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The rarest gift<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 4, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA trophy that too few of us will lift<br \/>\nIs dangled by the gods before our eyes<br \/>\nTo fall in love and marry is a gift<br \/>\nTo stay in love for life a special prize<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll fight through years of sacrifice and thrift<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;ve the wit to bend and compromise<\/p>\n<p>Your children grow and soon they move away<br \/>\nWith luck they stay as friends forevermore<br \/>\nThe babies that you taught to work and play<br \/>\nBecome the family that you adore<br \/>\nYou wake up to the question every day<br \/>\nWhat challenges has life still got in store<\/p>\n<p>If I grow old I hope I&#8217;ll look to see<br \/>\nSuch ideal tales throughout my family<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nA sonnet (14 lines of iambic pentameter with a regular rhyme scheme and a<br \/>\nvolta) constructed by adding an extra ababab sestet to the start of an ottava<br \/>\nrima.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rarest gift by cricketjeff on April 4, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A trophy that too few of us will lift Is dangled by the gods before our eyes To fall in love and marry is a gift To stay in love for life a special prize You&#8217;ll fight through years of [&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-3744","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3744","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=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7765,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3744\/revisions\/7765"}],"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=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}