{"id":4675,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4675"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:47","slug":"the-moonlight-in-the-meadow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-moonlight-in-the-meadow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moonlight in the Meadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Moonlight in the Meadow<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 20, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe Moonlight in the meadow on a balmy summer night<br \/>\nA grassy bank without a lover&#8217;s hand<br \/>\nThe whisper of a willow all that&#8217;s missing is delight<br \/>\nSometimes the world is hard to understand<\/p>\n<p>The gentle lapping motion of an ancient wooden boat<br \/>\nA million stars are dancing on the stream<br \/>\nWithout you there to hold me I don&#8217;t want to stay afloat<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll drown inside the safety of a dream<\/p>\n<p>The sky is filled with gemstones and the hedgerow almost sings<br \/>\nWhile ducks sleep on the water under trees<br \/>\nThe ghostly bats patrolling fill the air with silent wings<br \/>\nAnd faded thoughts of you hang on the breeze<\/p>\n<p>This meadow full of moonlight fills my dreams each summer night<br \/>\nThe grassy bank where we once watched the sky<br \/>\nThe willow seems to whisper &#8220;He&#8217;s the fool who lost delight<br \/>\nThe night he kissed your lips and said goodbye&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moonlight in the Meadow by cricketjeff on July 20, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The Moonlight in the meadow on a balmy summer night A grassy bank without a lover&#8217;s hand The whisper of a willow all that&#8217;s missing is delight Sometimes the world is hard to understand The gentle lapping motion [&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-4675","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4675","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=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6833,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4675\/revisions\/6833"}],"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=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}