{"id":1210,"date":"2024-06-30T13:06:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T12:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntownshend.com\/wordpress\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2024-06-30T13:06:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T12:06:05","slug":"first-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/first-love\/","title":{"rendered":"First Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I need to drown in your smile again <br>Your beauty untouched by cynicism <br>Don\u2019t let me grind you down <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My guilt and anxiety <br>Cleaves at me<br>Silently<br>Unwanted thievery <br>As I learned your ways<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You taught me hope<br>And hope lifts me up<br>For that day tomorrow <br>That day that never comes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stunned into inaction <br>A feeble attempt at living <br>You\u2019d call it genuine <br>When I\u2019d ruin the party<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A horse walks past my kitchen <br>After the apples on my trees<br>You might\u2019ve cooked for me<br>If I were a boy again <br>There\u2019d be no problem <br>Upsetting at the table<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your undying heart never left me<br>I sank into myself <br>With those fragments I stole <br>Your sparkle and spirit <br>Saves me from myself <br>Always indebted <br>Always yours<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to drown in your smile again Your beauty untouched by cynicism Don\u2019t let me grind you down My guilt and anxiety Cleaves at meSilentlyUnwanted thievery As I learned your ways You taught me hopeAnd hope lifts me upFor that day tomorrow That day that never comes Stunned into inaction A feeble attempt at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/first-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Love<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}