{"id":143,"date":"2025-08-09T20:57:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bbharvey.com\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2025-08-11T21:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T04:34:46","slug":"for-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbharvey.com\/blog\/for-carol\/","title":{"rendered":"For Carol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the love of my life on our 51<sup>st<\/sup> anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">She Walks in Beauty<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">BY&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/lord-byron\">LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She walks in beauty, like the night<br>Of cloudless climes and starry skies;<br>And all that\u2019s best of dark and bright<br>Meet in her aspect and her eyes;<br>Thus mellowed to that tender light<br>Which heaven to gaudy day denies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One shade the more, one ray the less,<br>Had half impaired the nameless grace<br>Which waves in every raven tress,<br>Or softly lightens o\u2019er her face;<br>Where thoughts serenely sweet express,<br>How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And on that cheek, and o\u2019er that brow,<br>So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,<br>The smiles that win, the tints that glow,<br>But tell of days in goodness spent,<br>A mind at peace with all below,<br>A heart whose love is innocent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the love of my life on our 51st anniversary. She Walks in Beauty BY&nbsp;LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON) She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that\u2019s best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes;Thus mellowed to that tender lightWhich heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,22],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbharvey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbharvey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbharvey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbharvey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbharvey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bbharvey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/bbharvey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbharvey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbharvey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbharvey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbharvey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}