{"id":23134,"date":"2022-02-02T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=23134"},"modified":"2022-02-10T19:49:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T19:49:24","slug":"arrias-his-muse-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-his-muse-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias &#038; His Muse: Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/arrias_muse1.png\" width=\"214\" height=\"288\" \/>Barking, growling, running about,<br \/>\nI guess it\u2019s time to rise,<br \/>\nPuppies playing in the dawn,<br \/>\nI leave my dreams with several sighs.<br \/>\nShe was so close, I held her hand,<br \/>\nWe walked, we almost kissed,<br \/>\nAlmost kissed as we danced,<br \/>\nNow gone, and she is missed.<\/p>\n<p>Walk the dogs, then feed them,<br \/>\nGo about my chores,<br \/>\nAnd wonder where she is today,<br \/>\nWalking on distant shores.<br \/>\nWarm, sandy beaches under foot,<br \/>\nTropical waters lap softly at the sand,<br \/>\nA warm sun rises quickly,<br \/>\nA golden glow bathes the land.<\/p>\n<p>She sits near a gently swaying palm,<br \/>\nBehind her bougainvillea climbs a wall,<br \/>\nFresh mango and coffee for breakfast,<br \/>\nShe watches a sand crab crawl.<br \/>\nShe was so close, she is so far,<br \/>\nDear God, if I could but return,<br \/>\nOutside, a cold wind shakes the house,<br \/>\nBut inside still\u2026 I burn\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2022 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barking, growling, running about, I guess it\u2019s time to rise, Puppies playing in the dawn, I leave my dreams with several sighs. She was so close, I held her hand, We walked, we almost kissed, Almost kissed as we danced, Now gone, and she is missed. Walk the dogs, then feed them, Go about my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23166,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23134\/revisions\/23166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}