{"id":4148,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4148"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-desert-rose","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-desert-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"The Desert Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Desert Rose<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on September 23, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA single rose may flourish in the baking desert sun<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Her beauty may assault the tortured sand<br \/>\nWhatever comes to greet her she may answer it in fun<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 How many blows can any rose withstand<\/p>\n<p>The night may fall like thunder and the rose may disappear<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 But still release the sweetest floral scent<br \/>\nEach crude assault of fortune may produce a silent tear<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 In time the gods against her must relent<\/p>\n<p>The pantheon is jealous of the beauty of the rose<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 And tries to spoil each perfect petal&#8217;s sheen<br \/>\nBut beauty is much stronger than the forces science knows<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 The rose returns to make the desert green<\/p>\n<p>The rose that stands for passions is too sweet to fade away<br \/>\nI want to stand and marvel at that desert rose today<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nKeep fighting Tory!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Desert Rose by cricketjeff on September 23, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A single rose may flourish in the baking desert sun \u00a0 \u00a0 Her beauty may assault the tortured sand Whatever comes to greet her she may answer it in fun \u00a0 \u00a0 How many blows can any rose withstand The [&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-4148","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4148","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=4148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7360,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4148\/revisions\/7360"}],"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=4148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}