{"id":25638,"date":"1980-12-11T12:13:42","date_gmt":"1980-12-11T12:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25638"},"modified":"2013-07-09T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T16:24:10","slug":"john-hodgson-our-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25638","title":{"rendered":"John Hodgson &#8211; &#8221; Our Day&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<a title=\"Bohemia Bouquet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25494\"><em>Bohemian Bouquet<\/em><\/a>, published 1980 by The Bohemians.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bright sun shines through a window warm,<br \/>\nThe birds seek food on a dewy lawn.<br \/>\nThe storm has gone, the day awakes,<br \/>\nTo a million ripples on a thousand lakes.<br \/>\nTea in bed, as we awaken,<br \/>\nFollowed by the fragrance of eggs and bacon.<br \/>\nThe sound of a mower as it cuts the grass<br \/>\nWhile the church bells call congregations to Mass.<\/p>\n<p>The bark of a dog in a wood nearby,<br \/>\nWhile children play and babies cry.<br \/>\nThe smell of roast beef, the joy of a garden,<br \/>\nFrom the daily toil we\u2019re granted a pardon.<br \/>\nA chair on the lawn, an excuse for yawning,<br \/>\nSome spend it our way,<br \/>\nWe call it \u201cour day\u201d,<br \/>\nThere\u2019s nothing we love like a bright Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A country walk among the trees,<br \/>\nPrimroses, blue bells, to pick as you please.<br \/>\nA picnic tea of salad and cakes,<br \/>\nWhile all around nature\u2019s noises she makes.<br \/>\nThe silence of solitude,<br \/>\nThe song of the lark,<br \/>\nBetter get home now,<br \/>\nIt soon will be dark.<\/p>\n<p>A quiet evening at home,<br \/>\nCarry baby to bed,<br \/>\nFor the love of a family<br \/>\nA lot\u2019s to be said,<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve had a good time,<br \/>\nA frolic and fun day.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s turn out the lights,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not Sunday, it\u2019s Monday.<\/p>\n<p>John Hodgson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0Bohemian Bouquet, published 1980 by The Bohemians. &nbsp; Our Day The bright sun shines through a window warm, The birds seek food on a dewy lawn. The storm has gone, the day awakes, To a million ripples on a thousand lakes. Tea&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25638\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[243,109],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25638"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25638"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27052,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25638\/revisions\/27052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}