{"id":295,"date":"2019-08-21T08:30:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T08:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onyx23.net\/beats\/?p=295"},"modified":"2019-08-21T08:30:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T08:30:46","slug":"the-value-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/2019\/08\/21\/the-value-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Value of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silver dollar son<br \/>Every year like clockwork<br \/>Same old gift from my grand mother<br \/>Same old fake smile for thanks<br \/>Walk away thinking<br \/>What good is a dollar in 1983 Just barely 10<br \/>But I was young and childish then<br \/>My mom always took my silver dollar from me<br \/>cause I never knew what that silver dollar meant<br \/>And I didn&#8217;t mind losing so little money<br \/>That my mom secretly stashed away<br \/>Then one year it happened<br \/>No silver dollar was given to me<br \/>Heaven had taken the supply<br \/>My grandmother always gave with glee<br \/>And Christmas was filled with tears<br \/>No grandmother, no eggnog<br \/>No Santa, no joy, no cheers<br \/>We sat around an empty tree<br \/>Counting down silver dollars<br \/>Like counting down all the years<br \/>And I remember how little it seemed<br \/>Now that I am older<br \/>I realize how much that silver dollar meant to me<br \/>It was not the money but the love<br \/>That was past through her gentle touch<br \/>So now I hand those same silver dollars to my son<br \/>Hoping that he will understand<br \/>That is not the value of a dollar but the value of love<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>This poem is a part of The Collaboration Project<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Thanks to Shannon Wendler for allowing me to work on her poem.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver dollar sonEvery year like clockworkSame old gift from my grand motherSame old fake smile for thanksWalk away thinkingWhat good is a dollar in 1983 Just barely 10But I was<a href=\"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/2019\/08\/21\/the-value-of-love\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Value of Love<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}