{"id":4453,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4453"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"i-want-to-win","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/i-want-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want to Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I Want to Win<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 26, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI want to feel the melting sand<br \/>\nBeneath my tide touched toes,<br \/>\nTo feel the sun drops where I stand<br \/>\nAs ozone fills my nose.<br \/>\nI want taste the onshore breeze,<br \/>\nThat loves the lungs on days like these.<\/p>\n<p>I want to watch the gulls at play<br \/>\nAnd trace a distant sail,<br \/>\nHear everything the seashells say<br \/>\nAnd maybe sight a whale.<br \/>\nI want to feel you stand by me,<br \/>\nTo watch the ocean&#8217;s poetry.<\/p>\n<p>Then walk with you on gentle hills,<br \/>\nThrough fields of buttercups .<br \/>\nWhere open air cures all our ills<br \/>\nAnd downs turn into ups.<br \/>\nI want to dream I&#8217;ve spread my arms<br \/>\nAnd flown away from life&#8217;s alarms.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll amble through the oak and beech,<br \/>\nIn dappled bluebelled shade.<br \/>\nA grassy bank puts you in reach,<br \/>\nAs woodland love is made.<br \/>\nI want to be where life is ours,<br \/>\nTo dream between the summer&#8217;s flowers.<\/p>\n<p>I want to see my eyes in yours<br \/>\nAnd know the you behind.<br \/>\nForgetting all our heretofores<br \/>\nInside a single mind.<br \/>\nI want to be a part of you,<br \/>\nTo claim a prize long-overdue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Want to Win by cricketjeff on February 26, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I want to feel the melting sand Beneath my tide touched toes, To feel the sun drops where I stand As ozone fills my nose. I want taste the onshore breeze, That loves the lungs on days like these. [&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-4453","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4453","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=4453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7055,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4453\/revisions\/7055"}],"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=4453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}