{"id":701,"date":"2011-10-14T16:43:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T16:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=701"},"modified":"2011-10-14T16:43:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T16:43:20","slug":"friday-poetry-for-want-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Friday Poetry &#8212; For Want of Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For Want of Fire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I try to light a fire<br \/>\nBut cannot draw a spark<br \/>\nI barely get a glow<br \/>\nTo chase away the dark<\/p>\n<p>Lots of little lights<br \/>\nNot even quite a tiny flame<br \/>\nThey come and they go<br \/>\nBut I am always left the same<\/p>\n<p>I have know fire before<br \/>\nSo now it feels so cold<br \/>\nI want to know it again<br \/>\nBefore I grow old<\/p>\n<p>My passion runs deep and strong<br \/>\nMy heart is my own fire<br \/>\nI need another heart to kindle<br \/>\nTo take us both higher<\/p>\n<p>Where might I find her?<br \/>\nSo many places to seek<br \/>\nWhile I stand here lonely<br \/>\nEach day I feel so weak<\/p>\n<p>This is the flame I long for<br \/>\nThe fire of love&#8217;s embrace<br \/>\nEach time it passes me by<br \/>\nMy heart is a lonelier place<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Life goes on, and I am without a companion.\u00a0 But I am an optimist, so I keep searching.\u00a0 See you Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Want of Fire &nbsp; I try to light a fire But cannot draw a spark I barely get a glow To chase away the dark Lots of little lights Not even quite a tiny flame They come and they go But I am always left the same I have know fire before So now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}