{"id":89,"date":"1985-03-02T08:56:23","date_gmt":"1985-03-02T16:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:16:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:16:27","slug":"youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/03\/02\/youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet youth,<br \/>\nNought but unfair it seems.<br \/>\nInnocent youth,<br \/>\nAs yet unaware.<br \/>\nDesire of my wildest dreams<br \/>\nTo save youth,<br \/>\nFrom the corruption of age;<br \/>\nTo retain youth:<br \/>\nPreserve the sane.<\/p>\n<p>Oh youth,<br \/>\nAnd the beauty of Spirit therein.<br \/>\nSpriteful youth,<br \/>\nOf boundless energy<br \/>\nTo grow in Spirit or sin<br \/>\nBy will youth;<br \/>\nBe it as you please.<br \/>\nBe warned though:<br \/>\nLife&#8217;s no simple tease.<\/p>\n<p>Soft youth,<br \/>\nA different kind of clean.<br \/>\nUntainted you<br \/>\nPrepare to live by<br \/>\nAnd appease what scheme<br \/>\nIs it youth?<br \/>\nWhile time is on your side,<br \/>\nDecide youth:<br \/>\nNow&#8217;s the time.<\/p>\n<p>Proud youth!<br \/>\nShun yourself aside.<br \/>\nInside you<br \/>\nDoes Spirit lie,<br \/>\nBeing time-tested and tried<br \/>\nIn Truth, youth,<br \/>\nWith rewards divine.<br \/>\nIf it suits you,<br \/>\nOne and all can be thine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet youth,<br \/> Nought but unfair it seems.<br \/> Innocent youth,<br \/> As yet unaware.<br \/> Desire of my wildest dreams<br \/> To save youth,<br \/> From the corruption of age;<br \/> To retain youth:<br \/> Preserve the sane.<\/p>\n<p>Oh youth,<br \/> And the beauty of Spirit therein.<br \/> Spriteful youth,<br \/> Of boundless energy<br \/> To grow in Spirit [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}