{"id":2431,"date":"2016-02-20T21:11:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T21:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2016-02-20T21:30:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T21:30:46","slug":"when-you-winked-at-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=2431","title":{"rendered":"when you winked at me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a shy boy<br \/>\nas a child<br \/>\nsince then I&#8217;ve struggled<br \/>\nto feel differently<br \/>\nmy children<br \/>\nwould laugh<br \/>\nat the label<br \/>\nand say dad is fearless<br \/>\nbut the expectation<br \/>\nof meeting you<br \/>\nthe shy boy<br \/>\ncame out again<br \/>\neven though I knew<br \/>\nat first glance<br \/>\nwe were kindred spirits<br \/>\nof the spiritual kind<br \/>\nI doubted my instincts<br \/>\n&#8217;cause<br \/>\nyou are beautiful<br \/>\nsuccessful<br \/>\ntalented<br \/>\nand intelligent<br \/>\nthen you elegantly signed<br \/>\nyour book of poetry<br \/>\n~ \u00a0 saying<br \/>\nwe were kindred spirits<br \/>\nand yet<br \/>\nit wasn&#8217;t until<br \/>\nthe next day<br \/>\nwhen you winked at me<br \/>\nfrom the podium<br \/>\nI knew<br \/>\nyou understood<br \/>\ni understood<br \/>\nwe were fellow travelers<br \/>\nof THE HUMAN RACE<\/p>\n<p>peace out<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated to my fellow artist and kindred spirit Helene Cardona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a shy boy as a child since then I&#8217;ve struggled to feel differently my children would laugh at the label and say dad is fearless but the expectation of meeting you the shy boy came out again even though I knew at first glance we were kindred spirits of the spiritual kind I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=2431\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;when you winked at me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peaceoutpoemsforpeace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}