{"id":144,"date":"2009-06-20T15:11:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/?p=144"},"modified":"2009-06-20T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T20:11:18","slug":"watched-them-walk-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/2009\/06\/20\/watched-them-walk-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Watched Them Walk Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/walkaway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/walkaway.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"walkaway\" width=\"393\" height=\"319\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/walkaway.jpg 393w, https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/walkaway-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I watched them walk away<br \/>\nAnd I said goodbye to their youth<br \/>\nAnd I thought about mine<br \/>\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gone now, so gone<br \/>\nAnd I think about the was<br \/>\nAnd the way they are now<br \/>\nThe angst on her face<br \/>\nThe pain in her eyes<br \/>\nIt was mine<br \/>\nAnd those were the times<br \/>\nAnd yes those were the times<br \/>\nAnd I miss her, and I miss them, and I even miss the pain in her eyes<br \/>\nAnd I watched them walk away and I just watched them walk away<br \/>\nAnd how cruel it can be<br \/>\nAnd how cruel I can be<br \/>\nAnd how long ago those days\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>So young and serious<br \/>\nSo logical too<br \/>\nSo political we thought<br \/>\nAnd on the outside so tough<br \/>\nSo smart or at least we thought<\/p>\n<p>I saw in her face<br \/>\nShe was young<br \/>\nher blonde a little dirty<br \/>\nHer face was a little too<br \/>\nAnd I love her for that moment<br \/>\nFor she brought me back<br \/>\nTo the times when I was young<br \/>\nAnd so angry like her<br \/>\nSo angry like her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I watched them walk away And I said goodbye to their youth And I thought about mine It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gone now, so gone And I think about the was And the way they are now The angst on her face The pain in her eyes It was mine And those were the times And yes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}