{"id":338,"date":"1998-10-01T10:01:36","date_gmt":"1998-10-01T17:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemi-hegarty.website\/ladyj\/?p=338"},"modified":"2021-04-04T13:41:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T20:41:41","slug":"villanelle-for-my-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemi-hegarty.website\/ladyj\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Villanelle for My Best Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>I knew we would be best friends from the start;\r\nthe day I invited you home to eat,\r\nI wanted to share spirit, soul, and heart.\r\n\r\nThat nightmare when my ex left me with no car,\r\nyou were willing to satisfy my need;\r\nI knew that we were best friends from the start.\r\n\r\nWhen we laughed and played until it was dark, \r\nsavoring oneness of mind, wordless, sweet,\r\nwe began to share spirit, soul, and heart.\r\n\r\nThough time and space have flung out cruel darts \r\nof distance, a separating ravine, \r\nI know that we were best friends from the start.\r\n\r\nAcross the vast continent, miles apart,\r\nwe live in silent solitude and free,\r\nyet still are sharing spirit, soul, and heart.\r\n\r\nAs years ascend, ancient oaks in the park\r\nlift full branches, days crackling as dry leaves; \r\nremember we were best friends from the start,\r\nforever sharing spirit, soul, and heart.\r\n\r\n--10\/1\/98<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew we would be best friends from the start; the day I invited you home to eat, I wanted to share spirit, soul, and heart. That nightmare when my ex left me with no car, you were willing to satisfy my need; I knew that we were best friends from the start. When we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-friendship","post-preview"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemi-hegarty.website\/ladyj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ladyjspoetry.jpg?fit=960%2C280&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemi-hegarty.website\/ladyj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemi-hegarty.website\/ladyj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemi-hegarty.website\/ladyj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemi-hegarty.website\/ladyj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemi-hegarty.website\/ladyj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lemi-hegarty.website\/ladyj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/lemi-hegarty.website\/ladyj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemi-hegarty.website\/ladyj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemi-hegarty.website\/ladyj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemi-hegarty.website\/ladyj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemi-hegarty.website\/ladyj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}