{"id":4171,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4171"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:00","slug":"i-shall-not-go-again","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/i-shall-not-go-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I shall not go again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I shall not go again<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 3, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nYears are not always kind,<br \/>\nthe majestic oaks of memory<br \/>\nturn into fir and ash.<br \/>\nBeautiful enough,<br \/>\nbut lessened and transformed<br \/>\non these retrodden roads.<br \/>\nI shall not go again.<\/p>\n<p>The wild wide river,<br \/>\nfish-filled and sea deep,<br \/>\nnow seems unremarkable.<br \/>\nPretty beneath an old bridge<br \/>\nbut no home for pirates,<br \/>\nno barrier to invading armies.<br \/>\nI shall not go again<\/p>\n<p>The deer no longer<br \/>\nsport fourteen point antlers,<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t roar in the rut,<br \/>\nstand mighty in hidden valleys<br \/>\nbut shyly beg for bread.<br \/>\nI shall not go again.<\/p>\n<p>I ran and fought,<br \/>\ndiscovered distant lands,<br \/>\nconquered half the world, here ,<br \/>\nhalf a life ago<br \/>\nBut now a beautiful forest<br \/>\nholds ghosts<br \/>\nof unremembered dreams<br \/>\nand forgotten promises.<br \/>\nI shall not go again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shall not go again by cricketjeff on October 3, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Years are not always kind, the majestic oaks of memory turn into fir and ash. Beautiful enough, but lessened and transformed on these retrodden roads. I shall not go again. The wild wide river, fish-filled and sea deep, [&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-4171","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4171","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=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7338,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4171\/revisions\/7338"}],"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=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}