{"id":4817,"date":"2015-04-04T00:33:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T00:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2015-04-04T00:33:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T00:33:16","slug":"the-sorrows-of-the-rose-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4817","title":{"rendered":"THE SORROWS OF THE ROSE l"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rose.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4818\" alt=\"rose\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rose.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rose.jpg 192w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rose-128x80.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>He came in warm appeal<br \/>\nTo view the infant rose in dew<br \/>\nIn his hand is cradled<br \/>\nSimple gifts that blooms delight<br \/>\nHis face cracked in a sunny smile<br \/>\nAnd the star-eyed nursery lit up<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In her little mind&#8217;s eye<br \/>\nA hero came by for a play<br \/>\nTrusting the gardner&#8217;s hand<br \/>\nUntainted love reach out to him<br \/>\nAnd in her eyes is captured<br \/>\nThe guileless thrill of child-acceptance<\/p>\n<p>The gardner tended sorely<br \/>\nThe dewy bloom he should protect<br \/>\nHe strafed her tender ovaries<br \/>\nHer ovules burned in scarlet streams<br \/>\nAnd the bloom thus desecrated<br \/>\nTransformed in shades more years in time<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of the rose brittled<br \/>\nHer innocence ravaged cruelly<br \/>\nAnd he that robbed the cradle<br \/>\nRubbed off the child from the bloom<br \/>\nAnd in her eyes is captured<br \/>\nThe sorrows of a twisted world<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/laura.mcdonaldamurun\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=100003754417745\">Laura McDonald-Amurun<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He came in warm appeal To view the infant rose in dew In his hand is cradled Simple gifts that blooms delight His face cracked in a sunny smile And the star-eyed nursery lit up In her little mind&#8217;s eye A hero came by for a play Trusting the gardner&#8217;s hand Untainted love reach out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rose.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1fH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4819,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions\/4819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}