{"id":10094,"date":"2017-01-09T19:41:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T00:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10094"},"modified":"2017-01-09T19:41:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T00:41:33","slug":"ode-to-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10094","title":{"rendered":"Ode To Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ode to all in pain<br \/>\nWritten to Billy Joel&#8217;s song<br \/>\nThree O&#8217;clock on a Saturday<\/p>\n<p>It is 3 o&#8217;clock in the morning<br \/>\nand my pain shuffles in<br \/>\nI wish yes wish<br \/>\nI could find relief from my pain<br \/>\nFrom drinking tonic and gin<br \/>\nPlease God help me find an answer to<br \/>\nThis pain that keeps me awake<br \/>\nPeople just do not know all the pain I have<br \/>\nAnd what a wreck of my life it does make<br \/>\nMy friends coworkers and family<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t know all the pain I endure<br \/>\nSometimes it&#8217;s so bad in the evening<br \/>\nI am up just walking the floor<br \/>\nDear God help me find yes an answer to<br \/>\nThis dilemma that yes I am in<br \/>\nThree hours of relief from this pain I am in<br \/>\nYes Lord it seem like a sin<br \/>\nAll the pills that I have that have not worked<br \/>\nAre stacking up in a bowl<br \/>\nAnd the tests and the doctors that<br \/>\nI have seen, are yes now growing very old<br \/>\nAnd all that see me everyday<br \/>\nThink that that nothing has changed<br \/>\nBecause I don&#8217;t let my pain hamper me<br \/>\nA cheerful attitude is always shown on my face<br \/>\nI now have a doctor that seems to care<br \/>\nAnd better days are ahead he has told me<br \/>\nSo I&#8217;ll continue putting my faith in him<br \/>\nEven though everyday I grow old<br \/>\nI hope now you understand what I have been through<br \/>\nAnd I do my best everyday<br \/>\nAll I ask is yes that you will pray for me<br \/>\nAnd that my pain goes away<\/p>\n<p> BY RGAI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ode to all in pain Written to Billy Joel&#8217;s song Three O&#8217;clock on a Saturday It is 3 o&#8217;clock in the morning and my pain shuffles in I wish yes&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10094\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ode To Pain<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}