{"id":4362,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4362"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-vessel-of-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-vessel-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The vessel of love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The vessel of love<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 9, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe sonnet is the lover&#8217;s first recourse,<br \/>\nThe sweetest meter crowned with gentle rhyme.<br \/>\nFor happiness or to express remorse<br \/>\nThe sonnet always seems to be sublime.<\/p>\n<p>The tenderness its subtle lines convey<br \/>\nWins hearts wherever poetry is read.<br \/>\nFew lovers find a better way to say<br \/>\nThe words that none would want to leave unsaid.<\/p>\n<p>In fourteen lines of five iambs apiece,<br \/>\nIt tells a tale then sees another side.<br \/>\nThe magic of the form will never cease<br \/>\nAs long as lovers need a place to hide.<\/p>\n<p>I love this ancient form of poetry,<br \/>\nThe sonnet&#8217;s song will always speak to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vessel of love by cricketjeff on January 9, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The sonnet is the lover&#8217;s first recourse, The sweetest meter crowned with gentle rhyme. For happiness or to express remorse The sonnet always seems to be sublime. The tenderness its subtle lines convey Wins hearts wherever poetry is read. [&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-4362","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4362","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=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7147,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4362\/revisions\/7147"}],"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=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}