{"id":4980,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4980"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","slug":"one-in-a-million","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/o-poems\/one-in-a-million\/","title":{"rendered":"One in a million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> One in a million<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 7, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/Dare_to_be_different_by_digitalgod.jpg]<br \/>\nA million pebbles rolling on the beach<br \/>\nBut only one is smoother than a pearl,<br \/>\nThe perfect words that make a Shakespeare speech<br \/>\nCould not conspire to illustrate my girl.<\/p>\n<p>Ten thousand trees link arms to make a wood<br \/>\nBut only one is brushed with liquid fire.<br \/>\nThe beauty that Van Goch first understood<br \/>\nIs given life in eyes that I desire.<\/p>\n<p>One single heart is all I have to give,<br \/>\nThough thousands more beat faster as you pass.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve Michelin-starred the recipe I live<br \/>\nAnd water&#8217;s now ambrosia in my glass.<\/p>\n<p>I beat the odds and won the lottery &#8212;<br \/>\nThe moment that you gave yourself to me.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe picture is from http:\/\/digitalgod.deviantart.com\/gallery\/?offset=24#\/dwbbcl<\/p>\n<p>And yes it didn&#8217;t rhyme until I fixed it, sorry!<\/p>\n<p>[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One in a million by cricketjeff on March 7, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/Dare_to_be_different_by_digitalgod.jpg] A million pebbles rolling on the beach But only one is smoother than a pearl, The perfect words that make a Shakespeare speech Could not conspire to illustrate my girl. Ten thousand trees link arms to make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4980","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4980","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=4980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6528,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4980\/revisions\/6528"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}