{"id":104,"date":"2025-08-07T19:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zoerobin.com\/the_things_you_said\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2025-09-10T01:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:35:15","slug":"bittersweet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zoerobin.com\/the_things_you_said\/bittersweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bittersweet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.5em;\">Bittersweet<\/span><br><br>Come turn the TV off and sit here by me<br>The day fades away from us in shades of what could be<br>Was it hard, was this day the kind that brought you anger?<br>Did the news of the world instill some hopeless languor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Life runs away from me without a whisper<br>It goes by even though I\u2019m such an endless resister<br>Why the smile, have you found a way to slow life\u2019s river?<br>Does it show? I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m a taker or giver?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Life\u2019s become so bittersweet<br>Laughter mixed with sorrow<br>Life\u2019s become so bittersweet<br>As today becomes tomorrow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Though we try to reason out what\u2019s coming and going<br>it just seems like there\u2019s always something to keep us from knowing<br>So we try just to make each moment last forever<br>Like Peter Pan, we\u2019re creating lands of never, never<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Life\u2019s become so bittersweet<br>Sunlight chasing shadow<br>Life\u2019s become so bittersweet<br>And you know it&#8217;s hard to let go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bittersweet Come turn the TV off and sit here by meThe day fades away from us in shades of what could beWas it hard, was this day the kind that brought you anger?Did the news<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zoerobin.com\/the_things_you_said\/bittersweet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bittersweet<\/span><i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-104","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoerobin.com\/the_things_you_said\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoerobin.com\/the_things_you_said\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoerobin.com\/the_things_you_said\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoerobin.com\/the_things_you_said\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoerobin.com\/the_things_you_said\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zoerobin.com\/the_things_you_said\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/zoerobin.com\/the_things_you_said\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoerobin.com\/the_things_you_said\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}