{"id":5496,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5496"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"in-solitude","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/in-solitude\/","title":{"rendered":"In Solitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In Solitude<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 26, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn solitude I walked alone,<br \/>\nNo cheerful calls on telephone.<br \/>\nI seemed to don a bold disguise<br \/>\nAs white hot tears escaped my eyes;<br \/>\nIn solitude.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever harvest we have sown,<br \/>\nWhatever kindness we have shown,<br \/>\nIs lost when grief takes exercise;<br \/>\nIn solitude.<\/p>\n<p>My lifelong friends are swiftly flown<br \/>\nSo no-one hears my mournful moan,<br \/>\nHowever hard my spirit tries<br \/>\nI cannot hide these bitter cries,<br \/>\nNow life has left me on my own;<br \/>\nIn solitude.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nWritten after re-reading &#8220;Solitude&#8221;, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/allpoetry.com\/poem\/8500937-Solitude-by-Ella-Wheeler-Wilcox<br \/>\nPrompted to do so by a comment on a group thread by AP Poet Past_Is_Present<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Solitude by cricketjeff on June 26, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In solitude I walked alone, No cheerful calls on telephone. I seemed to don a bold disguise As white hot tears escaped my eyes; In solitude. Whatever harvest we have sown, Whatever kindness we have shown, Is lost when grief takes [&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-5496","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5496","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=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6011,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5496\/revisions\/6011"}],"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=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}