{"id":151,"date":"2016-03-05T18:34:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T18:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2016-03-19T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T14:18:09","slug":"i-could-never-sleep-with-you","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/i-could-never-sleep-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I Could Never Sleep With You"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0073ae;\">I COULD NEVER SLEEP WITH YOU<\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I could never, ever sleep with you.<br \/>\nThis I know. A fact. Its true.<br \/>\nFor your eyes so sparkling,<br \/>\nclear and bright<br \/>\nWould keep me awake,<br \/>\nRight through the night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I could never, ever sleep with you.<br \/>\nNo matter how close to you I drew.<br \/>\nFor your bubbling soul would never slake.<br \/>\nNo matter how much<br \/>\nFor you I ache.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I could never, ever sleep with you.<br \/>\nRegardless how close to you I grew.<br \/>\nFor your smile, your laugh,<br \/>\nYour vibrant charm.<br \/>\nWould keep me nights<br \/>\nFrom, being calm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I could never, ever sleep with you.<br \/>\nNot a wink, a sigh<br \/>\nThe whole night through.<br \/>\nFor passion and pleasure,<br \/>\nThe earth would quake<br \/>\nSo I would surely,<br \/>\nStay awake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">20\/01\/98<br \/>\nrevised 18 June 2002<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/poetry-index-page\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93\" src=\"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Poetry-Index-button-OPT.jpg\" alt=\"Poetry Index button OPT\" width=\"150\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I COULD NEVER SLEEP WITH YOU I could never, ever sleep with you. This I know. A fact. Its true. For your eyes so sparkling, clear and bright Would keep me awake, Right through the night. I could never, ever sleep with you. No matter how close to you I drew. For your bubbling soul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-151","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}