{"id":10252,"date":"2018-01-01T01:04:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T06:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10252"},"modified":"2018-01-01T01:04:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T06:04:24","slug":"where-are-my-friends-of-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10252","title":{"rendered":"Where Are My Friends of Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where are the friends<br \/>\nI had in youth<br \/>\nWhat are they doing now<br \/>\nAre they parents just like me<br \/>\nOr are they grandparents now<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure that some have traveled on<br \/>\nTo hear the heavenly call<br \/>\nBut I pray most are happy here<br \/>\nAnd have not traveled on<br \/>\nIf they are grandparents<br \/>\nI hope they have<br \/>\nMuch fun with all the kids<br \/>\nThe young ones and the old ones too<br \/>\nTo make them young again<br \/>\nAnd then I&#8217;m sure some never married<br \/>\nI do pray that&#8217;s their choice<br \/>\nWhatever now they&#8217;re doing now<br \/>\nI hope that they rejoice<br \/>\nYes they rejoice because they have lived<br \/>\nA life that&#8217;s full of love<br \/>\nYes I do wonder what has become<br \/>\nAnd send them all my love<\/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>Where are the friends I had in youth What are they doing now Are they parents just like me Or are they grandparents now I&#8217;m sure that some have traveled&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10252\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where Are My Friends of Youth<\/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\/10252"}],"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=10252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}