{"id":4203,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4203"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","slug":"once","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/o-poems\/once\/","title":{"rendered":"Once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Once<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 19, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nOnce, when the world was a different place<br \/>\nLong before moonbeams were talking of you<br \/>\nI saw a girl with the prettiest face<br \/>\nThe sweetest young angel that I ever knew<\/p>\n<p>Once when much younger I followed my heart<br \/>\nAfter a wiggle that whispered my name<br \/>\nAnd now silver moonlight has shown me that art<br \/>\nCan only be found when your heart is aflame<\/p>\n<p>Once there were others too many to count<br \/>\nThen there was you and they faded away<br \/>\nYours is a magic they cannot surmount<br \/>\nWaiting as moonlight turns night into day<\/p>\n<p>You are my angel so pretty and fair<br \/>\nYours is the wiggle that set me alight<br \/>\nGone are the others no love left to share<br \/>\nOnce I was yours I bid heartache good night<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI think I rather lost this, not sure.<\/p>\n<p>I may redo the second half I think it turned into a different and lesser poem<br \/>\nthan was in my head when I started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once by cricketjeff on October 19, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Once, when the world was a different place Long before moonbeams were talking of you I saw a girl with the prettiest face The sweetest young angel that I ever knew Once when much younger I followed my heart After a wiggle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4203","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4203","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=4203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7306,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4203\/revisions\/7306"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}