{"id":10116,"date":"2012-08-07T03:58:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T07:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10116"},"modified":"2012-08-07T03:58:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T07:58:58","slug":"too-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10116","title":{"rendered":"Too Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why can&#8217;t close ones see your gifts<br \/>\nWhy should you so wonder if<br \/>\nWonder if you did something<br \/>\nWhether recognition it would bring<br \/>\nMany people try so hard<br \/>\nAnd it never does seem in the cards<br \/>\nThat the people who are close<br \/>\nWill so support you the most<br \/>\nAm I the only one to see<br \/>\nHow unimportant I can be<br \/>\nTo close ones who I&#8217;d like to see<br \/>\nThat they feel that what they see<br \/>\nWhat they see me do in life<br \/>\nMatters and that all my strides<br \/>\nStrides to do the best I can<br \/>\nSometimes is much better than<br \/>\nBetter than what they can do<br \/>\nBut response is critique of you<br \/>\nNot say heh you did real great<br \/>\nAnd no other&#8217;s could have made<br \/>\nMade a difference made a slash<br \/>\nNo it seems they like to dash<br \/>\nDash your talents make you feel<br \/>\nWhat you do is not a big deal<br \/>\nGuess I&#8217;ll just go trying so<br \/>\nFinding other&#8217;s who&#8217;ll bestow<br \/>\nTrue assessment of what I try<br \/>\nTry my best to do and try<br \/>\nSo my message so to you<br \/>\nIs to bolster all around you<br \/>\nHelp them build their confidence<br \/>\nNot belittle or look askance<br \/>\nNo foster their talents so<br \/>\nAnd much better things will go<br \/>\nThey will be the best can be<br \/>\nAnd feel good you helped them see<br \/>\nHelped them see what they could do<br \/>\nIn all things that they try to do<\/p>\n<p> By Ronald Gainsford<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2000 Ronald Gainsford <\/p>\n<p> BY RGAI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why can&#8217;t close ones see your gifts Why should you so wonder if Wonder if you did something Whether recognition it would bring Many people try so hard And it&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10116\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Too Close<\/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\/10116"}],"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=10116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}