{"id":6321,"date":"2012-02-24T05:41:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T10:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6321"},"modified":"2012-02-24T05:41:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T10:41:40","slug":"birthday-greeting-to-an-artist-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6321","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Greeting to an Artist Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh\u00a0Evelyn our friend so dear<br \/>\nSeems you&#8217;ve clicked off another year.<\/p>\n<p>The march of time: relentless, cruel,<br \/>\nNo pausing, stopping (as a rule).<\/p>\n<p>And not just that but Decades! Six!<br \/>\nTo persevere &#8211; what were your tricks?<\/p>\n<p>But sands of time they do not stop ya&#8217;,<br \/>\nFor creativity few can top ya&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>You making beauty ageless, sweet,<br \/>\nYear after year was no mean feat.<\/p>\n<p>Paper, textiles, yarn or plastic,<br \/>\nYour view and\u00a0work\u00a0are sure fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>With passing years your vision heightens<br \/>\nWhile our dim sight your artwork lightens.<\/p>\n<p>So that is why we, age disdain,<br \/>\nWorry about it? All in vain!<\/p>\n<p>All these little rhymes to say<br \/>\nWe hope this is a special day.<\/p>\n<p>This party we would never miss,<br \/>\nTo celebrate and reminisce.<\/p>\n<p>So Happy Birthday, our dear friend,<br \/>\nFelicitations warm we send.<\/p>\n<p>Along with love and admiration,<br \/>\nAnd for decades more art, keen anticipation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh\u00a0Evelyn our friend so dear Seems you&#8217;ve clicked off another year. The march of time: relentless, cruel, No pausing, stopping (as a rule). And not just that but Decades! Six! To persevere &#8211; what were your tricks? But sands of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6321\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[519],"tags":[998,997],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6321"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6328,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions\/6328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}