{"id":4959,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4959"},"modified":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","slug":"constancy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/c-poems\/constancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Constancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Constancy<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 19, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe day we met I saw the stars align<br \/>\nAnd heard a skylark sing about the moon;<br \/>\nHer eager lips were sips of vintage wine,<br \/>\nTo savour on a winter afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>She painted leaves on every naked tree<br \/>\nAnd long dead roses bloomed beneath her gaze.<br \/>\nThe copper shone despite the verdigris<br \/>\nOn ancient roofs that rose above the haze.<\/p>\n<p>And even now her radiance remains,<br \/>\nLike vintage wine she casts away the years.<br \/>\nStill eager lips can kiss away the pains,<br \/>\nHer artists eyes disguise impending fears.<\/p>\n<p>From when we met until I have to die<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll bless the day she taught me how to fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constancy by cricketjeff on February 19, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The day we met I saw the stars align And heard a skylark sing about the moon; Her eager lips were sips of vintage wine, To savour on a winter afternoon. She painted leaves on every naked tree And long dead roses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9696,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4959","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4959","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=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6550,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4959\/revisions\/6550"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}