{"id":47344,"date":"2020-08-16T17:09:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T17:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=47344"},"modified":"2020-08-16T17:18:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T17:18:47","slug":"i-am-losing-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/08\/i-am-losing-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"I am losing heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peering into the sea<br \/>\nI imagine that I<br \/>\nCan see my reflection<br \/>\nJust wondering why<br \/>\nI don\u2019t look that well<br \/>\nIt seems any more<br \/>\nThe sea ice is melting<br \/>\nAnd I can\u2019t ignore<\/p>\n<p>What feels like hopelessness<br \/>\nShould I be resigned<br \/>\nTo fearing the worst<br \/>\nOr staying aligned<br \/>\nThe sea ice is melting<br \/>\nThe seals seemingly<br \/>\nAre, catching their fish<br \/>\nFar Out to sea<\/p>\n<p>I remember a time<br \/>\nWhen I was the boss<br \/>\nWhen I walked about<br \/>\nPeople did give a toss<br \/>\nBut now in what is an inauspicious<br \/>\nTime<br \/>\nMy prospects seem bleak<br \/>\nAnd I can hardly rhyme<\/p>\n<p>Often I lose  heart<br \/>\nAnd just want to dive<br \/>\nAs deep as can be<br \/>\nand then not survive<br \/>\nJust sink to the bottom<br \/>\nAbandoned and gone<br \/>\nIn the coldest of spots<br \/>\nWhere the sun\u2019s Never shone<\/p>\n<p>Mom always  said to me<br \/>\nYou were  my best<br \/>\nSon in all the world<br \/>\nDespite all the rest<br \/>\nI cried my eyes Out<br \/>\nWhen she passed away<br \/>\nShe just gave me a smile<br \/>\nAnd fell and did lay<\/p>\n<p>Motionless hopefully<br \/>\nI will go soon<br \/>\nJust like my mother<br \/>\nA bit out of tune<br \/>\nHopeful that someone<br \/>\nWill remember me<br \/>\nMy life not my death<br \/>\nI shall just have to see<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peering into the sea I imagine that I Can see my reflection Just wondering why I don\u2019t look that well It seems any more The sea ice is melting And I can\u2019t ignore What feels like hopelessness Should I be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/08\/i-am-losing-heart\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,173,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-bears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47348,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47344\/revisions\/47348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}