{"id":113751,"date":"2022-06-25T17:27:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113751"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:27:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:27:47","slug":"precious-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/precious-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Precious Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As bells that chime<br \/>\nOnly a little while<br \/>\nOn the face of time<br \/>\nWe are but a smile<\/p>\n<p>Precious youth comes and goes<br \/>\nPrecious time slips by<br \/>\nSeeming like no one knows<br \/>\nWhere it went or why<\/p>\n<p>Jobs take much of our lives<br \/>\nLeaving little time to do<br \/>\nWhat some may not realize<br \/>\nIs most important to you<\/p>\n<p>Taking time to stop<br \/>\nTo really listen well<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll find that what you thought<br \/>\nIs truly what you feel<\/p>\n<p>As the years set in<br \/>\nTime passes on<br \/>\nBefore you see it end<br \/>\nThe hurried life is gone<\/p>\n<p>So keep the time you need<br \/>\nAnd take the time to listen<br \/>\nTo every word you heed<br \/>\nIn every special person<\/p>\n<p>More precious than a flower<br \/>\nThan all the words that ryhme<br \/>\nIs the true grace and power<br \/>\nIn every moment of precious time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As bells that chime Only a little while On the face of time We are but a smile Precious youth comes and goes Precious time slips by Seeming like no one knows Where it went or why Jobs take much of our lives Leaving little&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113760,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113751\/revisions\/113760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}