{"id":46165,"date":"2018-04-25T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/?p=46165"},"modified":"2018-04-25T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T14:03:00","slug":"for-the-very-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/poetry\/for-the-very-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Very First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\nMy dearest Joseph<br>\nMy little boy<br>\nI have loved you forever<br>\nAlways will<br>\nI have always known you<br>\nForever will<br>\nBut I just met you<br>\nFor the first time\nYour little heart beats<br>\nYour eyes roam, searching<br>\nSo much you&#8217;ll see<br>\nSo much more you&#8217;ll feel<br>\nBut I just met you<br>\nFor the first time\nYou love me so much<br>\nI love you<br>\nSo many smiles to come<br>\nMany hugs<br>\nYes I just met you<br>\nFor the first time\nYou are my longing<br>\nYou are my tomorrow<br>\nYou will go where I cannot<br>\nYet I will be with you<br>\nAlways<br>\nAnd I just met you<br>\nFor the first time\nYou are life forward<br>\nYou are dreams not yet dreamt<br>\nYou are promise<br>\nYou are all that will be<br>\nAnd I just met you<br>\nFor the first time\nI give you my present<br>\nI give you my past<br>\nI have seen all<br>\nDone so much<br>\nBut you just met me<br>\nFor the first time\nI have cried for you<br>\nAnd I have hurt<br>\nSo you have fewer tears<br>\nLittle pain<br>\nYet you just met me<br>\nFor the very first time\nMany lives have toiled<br>\nTo make yours better<br>\nMany have struggled<br>\nSo you smile in the sun<br>\nYou will be all that can be<br>\nYou are all there is\nAnd my life is more complete<br>\nBecause we just met<br>\nFor the very first time\n<p>By Joe Fox, written April 25, 2018, when my grandson Joey was born<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dearest Joseph My little boy I have loved you forever Always will I have always known you Forever will But I just met you For the first time Your little heart beats Your eyes roam, searching So much you&#8217;ll see So much more you&#8217;ll feel But I just met you For the first time&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}