{"id":680,"date":"2015-08-15T12:21:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T19:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomswritings.lewczyk.net\/?p=680"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:06:22","slug":"longtree-classic-unfinished-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"Longtree [Classic] (13 line poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> <em>An old poem that I thought was unfinished, but I\u2019ve recently decided it was.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Weep for the children of Longtree<br>Their dreams are shattered<br>Their hopes are shorn<br>No home have they to lay their heads<\/p>\n<p>Weep for the children of Longtree<br>For in the night<br>As they did sleep<br>Death saw fit to show his head<\/p>\n<p>Weep for the children of Longtree<br>They think they live<br>They know not life<br>Condemned to dwell among the dead<\/p>\n<p>Weep for the children of Longtrtee<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old poem that I thought was unfinished, but I\u2019ve recently decided it was. Weep for the children of LongtreeTheir dreams are shatteredTheir hopes are shornNo home have they to lay their heads Weep for the children of LongtreeFor in the nightAs they did sleepDeath saw fit to show his head Weep for the children &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=680\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Longtree [Classic] (13 line poem)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3265,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/3265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}