{"id":5652,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5652"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"if-i-could","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/if-i-could\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Could"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> If I Could<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 30, 2018.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAnd if I could I&#8217;d hold you like a treasure in my arms,<br \/>\nExperiencing the pleasures of your sweet seductive charms.<br \/>\nWe would whisper all that matters, quantum physics, chocolate cake;<br \/>\nWith my self control in tatters from the liberties I&#8217;d take.<br \/>\n\u2029<br \/>\nAnd if I could I&#8217;d tease you every night and every day,<br \/>\nAs I did my best to please you in that very special way<br \/>\nAnd while everyone around us curled asleep without a care<br \/>\nWe would feel the special frisson only kindred souls can share.<br \/>\n\u2029<br \/>\nAnd if I could I&#8217;d kiss you and I&#8217;d never let you go<br \/>\nUntil my eyes were taken by the best of you on show.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s joy that&#8217;s near unequalled when the sight that you can see<br \/>\nIs a lady wearing little as she makes a cup of tea.<\/p>\n<p>And if I could I&#8217;d show you every secret in the World<br \/>\nI would try my best to know you as your deepest dreams unfurled<br \/>\nAnd though I can never keep you until evermore comes true<br \/>\nThere can never be tomorrow without room for me and you.<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t gone overboard in the romance stakes for a while so &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I Could by cricketjeff on May 30, 2018.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved And if I could I&#8217;d hold you like a treasure in my arms, Experiencing the pleasures of your sweet seductive charms. We would whisper all that matters, quantum physics, chocolate cake; With my self control in tatters from the liberties [&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-5652","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5652","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=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5856,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5652\/revisions\/5856"}],"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=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}