{"id":357,"date":"2007-11-23T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laimayleng.com\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2007-11-23T02:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T02:13:00","slug":"after-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/after-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"After A While"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: center;\">After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul,<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: center;\">And you learn that love doesn&#8217;t mean leaning and company doesn&#8217;t mean security,<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: center;\">And you begin to learn that kisses aren&#8217;t contracts and presents aren&#8217;t promises,<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: center;\">And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child,<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: center;\">And you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow&#8217;s ground is too uncertain for plans.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: center;\">After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: center;\">So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: center;\">And you learn that you really can endure . . .<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: center;\">that you really are strong, <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: center;\">and you really do have worth.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: center;\">And you learn and you learn . . .<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: center;\">with every goodbye you learn. . . .<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The poem above is compliments from <a href=\"http:\/\/princess-lovie.blogspot.com\/\">LovieDovie<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn&#8217;t mean leaning and company doesn&#8217;t mean security, And you begin to learn that kisses aren&#8217;t contracts and presents aren&#8217;t promises, And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-call-it-poetry","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}