{"id":5073,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5073"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:43:48","slug":"looking-back-and-loving","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/l-poems\/looking-back-and-loving\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back and Loving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Looking Back and Loving<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 25, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nDown a lane that lies forgotten<br \/>\nNear a sleepy country town<br \/>\nBy a stile now sad and rotten<br \/>\nI first wore your shining crown<br \/>\nOn that footpath where we wandered<br \/>\nPast a long abandoned mill<br \/>\nLies the love that I once squandered<br \/>\nOn the girl who owns it still<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a stream between two ridges<br \/>\nAnd a field of scattered flowers<br \/>\nOn the rails of two old bridges<br \/>\nWe once whiled away our hours<br \/>\nThere you told me you would need me<br \/>\nTill the sun gave up her task<br \/>\nThen you breathed the word that freed me<br \/>\nAnd I never had to ask &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI wish I could paint, I think this would make a good watercolour<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking Back and Loving by cricketjeff on May 25, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Down a lane that lies forgotten Near a sleepy country town By a stile now sad and rotten I first wore your shining crown On that footpath where we wandered Past a long abandoned mill Lies the love that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5073","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5073","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=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6435,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5073\/revisions\/6435"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}