{"id":3752,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3752"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/in-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"In the desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In the desert<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 6, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn the desert there&#8217;s a rose-bed where a single golden bloom<br \/>\nStands against the harshest climate spreading sunshine into gloom<br \/>\nIn the midst of drying scrub-land she stands tall and very proud<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s alone amidst destruction, not a face amongst the crowd<\/p>\n<p>Many faces rushing past her seem to pause and grow a smile<br \/>\nAs the golden rose they witness takes their burdens for a while<br \/>\nAnd it never seems to matter that her life is harsh and spare<br \/>\nShe has beauty for the hopeless and a fund of love to share<\/p>\n<p>Other roses gain a foothold in the ways that she has shown<br \/>\nAnd before her time to wither she may not be stood alone<br \/>\nIf you want an end to deserts and you&#8217;re glad when beauty shows<br \/>\nTake your time to watch the splendour that was born a Texas rose.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nYou know who she is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the desert by cricketjeff on April 6, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In the desert there&#8217;s a rose-bed where a single golden bloom Stands against the harshest climate spreading sunshine into gloom In the midst of drying scrub-land she stands tall and very proud She&#8217;s alone amidst destruction, not a face amongst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3752","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3752","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=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7755,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3752\/revisions\/7755"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}