{"id":4364,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4364"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:42:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:42:58","slug":"autumn-gold","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/a-poems\/autumn-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Autumn Gold<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 10, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI found the girl I long to hold<br \/>\nIn dreams I dreamt so long ago<br \/>\nWhen she was draped in Autumn gold<br \/>\nAnd all of life was there to know<\/p>\n<p>I wish that I had been more bold<br \/>\nBut never knew that things would change<br \/>\nWhen she was draped in Autumn gold<br \/>\nMy life began to rearrange<\/p>\n<p>Too soon the future had been sold<br \/>\nAnd we had drifted far apart<br \/>\nWhen she was draped in Autumn gold<br \/>\nShe broke this timid lover&#8217;s heart<\/p>\n<p>The World continued uncontrolled<br \/>\nIn time I met another girl<br \/>\nWhen she was draped in Autumn gold<br \/>\nShe sent my life into a whirl<\/p>\n<p>We built a life but let it fold<br \/>\nShe drifted to another&#8217;s arms<br \/>\nWhen she was draped in Autumn gold<br \/>\nI failed to see her girlish charms<\/p>\n<p>But now as though it was foretold<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve seen my childhood love again<br \/>\nWhen she was draped in Autumn gold<br \/>\nShe took away the years of pain<\/p>\n<p>Although she didn&#8217;t fit the mould<br \/>\nThat she had cast so long ago<br \/>\nWhen she was draped in Autumn gold<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t see her crown of snow<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re happy now our dice have rolled<br \/>\nTwo winners in the game of life<br \/>\nWhen she was draped in Autumn gold<br \/>\nMy old sweetheart became my wife<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nEr no, it isn&#8217;t my story!!! Just what the prompt &#8220;Autumn Gold&#8221; lead me to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn Gold by cricketjeff on January 10, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I found the girl I long to hold In dreams I dreamt so long ago When she was draped in Autumn gold And all of life was there to know I wish that I had been more bold But never knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4364","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4364","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=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7145,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4364\/revisions\/7145"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}