{"id":5578,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5578"},"modified":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:13:08","slug":"closing-the-libraries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/c-poems\/closing-the-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing the Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Closing the Libraries<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 29, 2017.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhenever someone dies a library closes,<br \/>\nUnique and special books will disappear.<br \/>\nAll lives are built of tales that life proposes,<br \/>\nOf friends, of love, of laughter and of fear.<\/p>\n<p>The lady that you thought had been a dancer,<br \/>\nThe way she walked, the way she held her head,<br \/>\nSome mystery to which she knew the answer<br \/>\nIs locked forever now its keeper&#8217;s dead.<\/p>\n<p>If you can learn what others try to teach you,<br \/>\nSome books they wrote are copied in your mind.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re at home when others try to reach you<br \/>\nThese secrets may not be too hard to find.<\/p>\n<p>But every heart holds gems it will not sell<br \/>\nAnd when you die those treasures die as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closing the Libraries by cricketjeff on January 29, 2017.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Whenever someone dies a library closes, Unique and special books will disappear. All lives are built of tales that life proposes, Of friends, of love, of laughter and of fear. The lady that you thought had been a dancer, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9696,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5578","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5578","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=5578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5930,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5578\/revisions\/5930"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}