{"id":1352,"date":"2016-07-07T20:21:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T14:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonkayar.com\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2023-02-01T15:07:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T09:37:32","slug":"a-lost-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonkayar.com\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"A Lost Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A ‘poem’ by ‘Charles Hanson Towne’ that is close to my heart<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end,
Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,
And before I know it, a year is gone.<\/p>

And I never see my old friends face,
For life is a swift and terrible race,
He knows I like him just as well,
As in the days when I rang his bell.<\/p>

And he rang mine but we were younger then,
And now we are busy, tired men.
Tired of playing a foolish game,
Tired of trying to make a name.<\/p>

“Tomorrow” I say! “I will call on Jim
Just to show that I’m thinking of him”,
But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes,
And distance between us grows and grows.<\/p>

Around the corner, yet miles away,
“Here’s a telegram sir,” “Jim died today.”
And that’s what we get and deserve in the end.
Around the corner, a vanished friend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A ‘poem’ by ‘Charles Hanson Towne’ that is close to my heart Around the corner I have a friend,In this great city that has no end,Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,And before I know it, a year is gone. And I never see my old friends face,For life is a swift and terrible race,He knows I like him just as well,As in the days when I rang his bell. And he rang mine but we were younger then,And now we are busy, tired men.Tired of playing a foolish game,Tired of trying to make a name. “Tomorrow” I …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonkayar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonkayar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonkayar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonkayar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonkayar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simonkayar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4608,"href":"https:\/\/simonkayar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/4608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonkayar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonkayar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonkayar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}