{"id":17573,"date":"2012-05-05T15:32:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T19:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/?p=17573"},"modified":"2020-11-30T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T20:42:38","slug":"the-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/?p=17573","title":{"rendered":"The Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Rose<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My heart aches, my knees are weak<\/p>\n<p>Losing this sorrow is all that I seek<\/p>\n<p>Dreams of the future now only regrets<\/p>\n<p>Alone without you is as bad as it gets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My dreams for love only needed a name<\/p>\n<p>So I gave them yours, but now such a shame<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re gone from my life as fast as you came<\/p>\n<p>That it\u2019s just not to be is such as shame.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your life will unfold as it\u2019s meant to be<\/p>\n<p>Too bad there\u2019ll never be a \u201cyou and me\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It could have been what love\u2019s all about<\/p>\n<p>That you are the \u201cone\u201d I have no doubt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I long for you to have given us a chance<\/p>\n<p>To see if there could be true romance.<\/p>\n<p>Sadness is now the theme of my prose<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t let it be said:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cI never sent you a rose\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rose My heart aches, my knees are weak Losing this sorrow is all that I seek Dreams of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/the-rose.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17575,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17573\/revisions\/17575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}