{"id":5498,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5498"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:03:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:03:39","slug":"ten-thousand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/ten-thousand\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Thousand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Ten Thousand<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 8, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nMake love to me ten thousand times, ten thousand different ways<br \/>\nAnd wrap me in the blanket of your heart.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re a new Neruda sonnet, you&#8217;re the best of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays,<br \/>\nI cannot learn my lines while we&#8217;re apart.<br \/>\nI always feel your kisses as I fall asleep in bed<br \/>\nThough we can&#8217;t be together we are lovers in my head.<\/p>\n<p>I close my eyes to hear you, close my ears and see you there,<br \/>\nI look around and you&#8217;ve just left the seat.<br \/>\nYou read each word I&#8217;ve written, long before it&#8217;s fit to share,<br \/>\nUntil you do it cannot be complete.<br \/>\nI feel your breath upon me when I&#8217;m focussed on the screen,<br \/>\nFeel you standing close behind me but I know you&#8217;re never seen.<\/p>\n<p>Reality is dreaming and when wide awake I sleep,<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll always be a part of every day.<br \/>\nYou are constant inspiration you&#8217;re the look before each leap<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re the reason that I go, and that I stay.<br \/>\nOn my journey through tomorrow, on my road to Timbuktu<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s ten thousand perfect lovers, every one of them is you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Thousand by cricketjeff on July 8, 2015.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Make love to me ten thousand times, ten thousand different ways And wrap me in the blanket of your heart. You&#8217;re a new Neruda sonnet, you&#8217;re the best of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays, I cannot learn my lines while we&#8217;re apart. I always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5498","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5498","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=5498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6010,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5498\/revisions\/6010"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}