{"id":5013,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5013"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:02","slug":"it-would-be-nice-if-it-were-true","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/it-would-be-nice-if-it-were-true\/","title":{"rendered":"It Would Be Nice If It Were True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It Would Be Nice If It Were True<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 30, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIt would be nice if it were true<br \/>\nThat one day I could sit with you<br \/>\nTo listen as you reminisced<br \/>\nAnd tell you all that you have missed<\/p>\n<p>You only saw my eldest son<br \/>\nThen slipped away before the fun<br \/>\nWe had three more (to my surprise)<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d love them all &#8220;when they&#8217;re abyes&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice if they could meet<br \/>\nThe man who set me on my feet<br \/>\nAnd laugh to hear from other lips<br \/>\nThe same eccentric little quips<\/p>\n<p>The family that you worked to build<br \/>\nHas spread and seen its dreams fulfilled<br \/>\nWe gather as we used to do<br \/>\nAnd when we meet thoughts turn to you<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice if you were there<br \/>\nReliving memories we share<br \/>\nI know you&#8217;d laugh to see the crowd<br \/>\nI hope that we&#8217;d all make you proud<\/p>\n<p>But then I think of how life&#8217;s changed<br \/>\nOur certainties are re-arranged<br \/>\nYou were the son of older days<br \/>\nWhen lives were lived in other ways<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep the you that lives inside<br \/>\nAnd knows the me I try to hide<br \/>\nWhen things go well I&#8217;ll feel you&#8217;re glad<br \/>\nAnd smile that you&#8217;re still my Grandad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It Would Be Nice If It Were True by cricketjeff on March 30, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved It would be nice if it were true That one day I could sit with you To listen as you reminisced And tell you all that you have missed You only saw my eldest son [&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-5013","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5013","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=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6494,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5013\/revisions\/6494"}],"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=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}