{"id":1535,"date":"2015-07-30T15:37:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T23:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2015-07-30T15:37:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T23:37:35","slug":"a-meeting-of-the-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1535","title":{"rendered":"A Meeting Of The Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Meeting Of The Minds<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Come on over to my way of thinking.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I know you can without even blinking.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I am not trying to dominate you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>That is the last thing I would want to do.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>We will do better if we can agree.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>You know I am as stubborn as can be.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Problem is, that you are stubborn to.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This means little progress for me and you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Our happiness can depend on this.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>There is really not a lot of risk.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>We agree on most things already.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Except for the sauce to put on spaghetti.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I am thinking of philosophical differences.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This is where we get caught in the clinches.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>We can work them out in time.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If we both really try to find<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>that ground in the middle where we can agree.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It\u2019s as much up to you as it is to me.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Love and affection should not play a role.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>We have to look at things as a whole.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The more ways we can blend together,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>the more chance of enduring any weather.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Being one in all we say and do.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>With the exception of minor things, it\u2019s true.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Think what a statement that would make.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>They found their soulmate; make no mistake.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>With all of that said and done,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Come on over here. Let\u2019s have some fun.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-R. W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(2015)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Meeting Of The Minds Come on over to my way of thinking. I know you can without even blinking. I am not trying to dominate you. That is the last thing I would want to do. We will do better if we can agree. You know I am as stubborn as can be. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1535\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Meeting Of The Minds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,29,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-bird-poetry","category-life-lessons","category-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}