{"id":25655,"date":"1980-12-11T14:01:48","date_gmt":"1980-12-11T14:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25655"},"modified":"2013-07-09T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T16:22:36","slug":"june-mann-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25655","title":{"rendered":"June Mann &#8211; &#8220;Time&#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>Time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Time ripens the ova and triggers off birth,<br \/>\nIt heightens the stature, and widens the girth.<br \/>\nDeepens the feelings, the courage, the hope,<br \/>\nBy broadening the mind, the knowledge and scope.<br \/>\nIt gives us love and takes it away,<br \/>\nCan bring joy and sadness in the space of a day.<\/p>\n<p>Time seems like forever when troubles are rife,<br \/>\nYet re-calls in a second thinking back on your life,<br \/>\nIt speeds us through seasons, through calendar years,<br \/>\nBut lingers through ordeals, and grieving, and tears.<br \/>\nIt robs us of children by making them men,<br \/>\nWho then bring their off-spring to gladden again.<\/p>\n<p>Time promises harvests, and mellows the earth,<br \/>\nIt heals all our scars, and values our worth,<br \/>\nIt brings to full beauty the rose and the maid,<br \/>\nTill we find to our sorrow age\u2019s finger has laid,<br \/>\nIt makes oaks and young men stand true and tall,<br \/>\nThen, gnarling and sapping, brings their downfall.<\/p>\n<p>Time levels all mortals whatever their role<br \/>\nBy decaying the body but enriching the soul,<br \/>\nMaking fools of the proud, dignifying the meek,<br \/>\nRewarding the patient, strengthening the weak.<br \/>\nIt determines our life-span, then from where we came<br \/>\nOur bones turned to ashes, returns us again.<\/p>\n<p>June Mann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0Bohemian Bouquet, published 1980 by The Bohemians. &nbsp; Time Time ripens the ova and triggers off birth, It heightens the stature, and widens the girth. Deepens the feelings, the courage, the hope, By broadening the mind, the&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25655\">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\/25655"}],"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=25655"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27046,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25655\/revisions\/27046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}