{"id":491,"date":"2014-12-11T15:46:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T23:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2014-12-11T15:46:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T23:46:49","slug":"sometimes-o-k-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes O.K. Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes O.K. Hurts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Love can hurt, &#8212;&#8211;they say.<\/p>\n<p>It can also hurt to say, \u00a0o.k.<\/p>\n<p>Things started out like a wild wind.<\/p>\n<p>Left me hoping it would never end.<\/p>\n<p>I felt I was in the eye of a hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>Things would never be the same.<\/p>\n<p>A wild ride through \u2018Lover\u2019s Lane.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Love was falling, \u00a0just like rain.<\/p>\n<p>There were puffs of rainbow mist.<\/p>\n<p>Electric shocks from just a kiss.<\/p>\n<p>Star dust, fairy dust, mistletoe &amp; hugs.<\/p>\n<p>Romping through the \u2018dreamland\u2019 suds.<\/p>\n<p>You and me, sailing off to eternity.<\/p>\n<p>Returning each morning for our tea.<\/p>\n<p>Excitement around every curve.<\/p>\n<p>Making new memories, \u00a0as it occurred.<\/p>\n<p>It was new and different every day.<\/p>\n<p>So many games. So much to play.<\/p>\n<p>It was like a dreamland walk.<\/p>\n<p>Until it came to the place to talk.<\/p>\n<p>It ended when you went your way.<\/p>\n<p>All I could do was say&#8212;&#8211; o.k.&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;R. W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(2014)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes O.K. Hurts Love can hurt, &#8212;&#8211;they say. It can also hurt to say, \u00a0o.k. Things started out like a wild wind. Left me hoping it would never end. I felt I was in the eye of a hurricane. Things would never be the same. A wild ride through \u2018Lover\u2019s Lane.\u2019 Love was falling, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=491\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sometimes O.K. Hurts<\/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":[6,29,2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-life-lessons","category-romance","category-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}