{"id":879,"date":"2021-06-14T15:49:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=879"},"modified":"2021-06-14T15:54:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:54:54","slug":"pensioner-praise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=879","title":{"rendered":"Pensioner Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need a freshly minted song<br \/>\nto lift me every day,<br \/>\nto transform the experience<br \/>\nof slowly fading away.<br \/>\nNow with time to appreciate<br \/>\nthe changing season\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face,<br \/>\nI want to find a melody,<br \/>\nand words I can embrace.<\/p>\n<p>A song to really celebrate<br \/>\nall the people in my life,<br \/>\nfriends, and family as well,<br \/>\nthe children and my wife.<br \/>\nWith a tune from listening<br \/>\nto birds in woods and fields,<br \/>\npicking up life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s melody<br \/>\nwhich daily routine yields.<\/p>\n<p>The divine is all around us,<br \/>\nunseen presence at our side,<br \/>\nrevealed in loving actions<br \/>\nby neighbours far and wide.<br \/>\nI don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need flowery words<br \/>\nto capture what life gives,<br \/>\neach day brings me miracles<br \/>\nin tune with all that lives.<\/p>\n<p><em>May 2021<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=881\">NEXT POEM &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need a freshly minted song<br \/>\nto lift me every day,<br \/>\nto transform the experience<br \/>\nof slowly fading away.<br \/>\nNow with time to appreciate<br \/>\nthe changing season\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face,<br \/>\nI want to find a melody,<br \/>\nand words I can embrace.<\/p>\n<p>A song to really celebrate<br \/>\nall the people in my life,<br \/>\nfriends, and family as&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"margintop-large margintop-xlarge-l clear-both\"><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=879#s\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pensioner Praise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-879","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/879\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}