{"id":925,"date":"2015-09-05T09:40:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T16:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomswritings.lewczyk.net\/?p=925"},"modified":"2021-06-19T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T17:16:00","slug":"significance-new-17-line-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"Something Worthwhile [New] (17 line poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>What got me going\u00a0writing\u00a0this was a sidewalk sign in San Francisco inviting me in for lunch &#8216;if I had an hour&#8217;.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If I gave you an hour<br \/>\nWould you spend it<br \/>\nOn inconsequential nothings<br \/>\nThinking it too short to do something worthwhile<\/p>\n<p>If I gave you a day<br \/>\nWould it pass you by so quickly<br \/>\nThat tomorrow looking back<br \/>\nYou would wonder where it went<\/p>\n<p>If I gave you a year<br \/>\nWould it fade into the stream of your existence<br \/>\nJust another fleeting summer<br \/>\nOne more sure step toward\u00a0death<\/p>\n<p>If I gave you a lifetime<br \/>\nWould you, looking back<br \/>\nWish for an hour, a day, a year<br \/>\nA lifetime \u2013 another chance<br \/>\nTo make it worthwhile, to do\u00a0it right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What got me going\u00a0writing\u00a0this was a sidewalk sign in San Francisco inviting me in for lunch &#8216;if I had an hour&#8217;. If I gave you an hour Would you spend it On inconsequential nothings Thinking it too short to do something worthwhile If I gave you a day Would it pass you by so quickly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=925\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Something Worthwhile [New] (17 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":[3,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925"}],"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=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}