{"id":4708,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4708"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:40:40","slug":"her-nightly-visitor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/h-poems\/her-nightly-visitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Nightly Visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Her Nightly Visitor<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 13, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nHis footsteps on the landing to her door,<br \/>\nThe handle turning underneath his hand,<br \/>\nHis shadow stretching out across the floor,<br \/>\nHer heart is beating like a German band.<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 She feels his breath against her blushing cheek,<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The cover moves to let him slide inside;<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 She lets him know, without the need to speak,<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 That nothing he desires will be denied.<br \/>\nAnd since he died he visits her each night,<br \/>\nHe never sees the way that she has aged<br \/>\nBut family can hear her sweet delight<br \/>\nAs long remembered passions are assuaged.<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 She has no fear of death, for now she knows,<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The best in life will never decompose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her Nightly Visitor by cricketjeff on August 13, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved His footsteps on the landing to her door, The handle turning underneath his hand, His shadow stretching out across the floor, Her heart is beating like a German band. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 She feels his breath against her blushing cheek, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9706,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4708","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4708","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=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6799,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4708\/revisions\/6799"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}