{"id":320,"date":"2008-08-17T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svendberg.com\/wp\/2008\/08\/17\/the-rose\/"},"modified":"2008-08-17T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T19:01:00","slug":"the-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svendberg.com\/wp\/the-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rose!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qSny1ADdcxg\/SKh1qPDJRMI\/AAAAAAAAB0c\/4uMf3PCyX1U\/s1600-h\/IMG_9827.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qSny1ADdcxg\/SKh1qPDJRMI\/AAAAAAAAB0c\/4uMf3PCyX1U\/s400\/IMG_9827.JPG\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>Some say love, it is a river<br \/>That drowns the tender reed<br \/>Some say love, it is a razor<br \/>That leaves your soul to bleed<br \/>Some say love, it is a hunger<br \/>An endless aching need<br \/>I say love, it is a flower<br \/>And you, its only seed<br \/>It&#8217;s the heart, afraid of breaking<br \/>That never learns to dance<br \/>It&#8217;s the dream, afraid of waking<br \/>That never takes the chance<br \/>It&#8217;s the one who won&#8217;t be taken<br \/>Who cannot seem to give<br \/>And the soul, afraid of dying<br \/>That never learns to live<br \/>When the night has been too lonely<br \/>And the road has been too long<br \/>And you think that love is only<br \/>for the lucky and the strong<br \/>Just remember in the winter<br \/>Far beneath the bitter snow<br \/>Lies the seed<br \/>That with the sun&#8217;s love, in the spring<br \/>Becomes the rose<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/\" target=\"ext\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif\" alt=\"Posted by Picasa\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some say love, it is a riverThat drowns the tender reedSome say love, it is a razorThat leaves your soul to bleedSome say love, it is a hungerAn endless aching needI say love, it is a flowerAnd you, its only seedIt&#8217;s the heart, afraid of breakingThat never learns to danceIt&#8217;s the dream, afraid of wakingThat never takes the chanceIt&#8217;s the one who won&#8217;t be takenWho cannot seem to giveAnd the soul, afraid of dyingThat never learns to liveWhen the night has been too lonelyAnd the road has been too longAnd you think that love is onlyfor the lucky and the strongJust remember in the winterFar beneath the bitter snowLies the seedThat with the sun&#8217;s love, in the springBecomes the rose<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lett-blanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svendberg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svendberg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svendberg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svendberg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svendberg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/svendberg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svendberg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svendberg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svendberg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}