{"id":354,"date":"2008-03-09T20:46:54","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T20:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/09\/ae-fond-kiss-and-then-we-sever\/"},"modified":"2008-03-09T20:46:54","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T20:46:54","slug":"ae-fond-kiss-and-then-we-sever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/09\/ae-fond-kiss-and-then-we-sever\/","title":{"rendered":"Ae Fond Kiss, and then We Sever"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n          Ae Fond Kiss, and then We Sever\r\n\r\n\r\nAe fond kiss, and then we sever;\r\nAe fareweel, and then for ever!\r\nDeep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,\r\nWarring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.\r\n\r\nWho shall say that Fortune grieves him\r\nWhile the star of hope she leaves him?\r\nMe, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,\r\nDark despair around benights me.\r\n\r\nI'll ne'er blame my partial fancy;\r\nNaething could resist my Nancy;\r\nBut to see her was to love her,\r\nLove but her, and love for ever.\r\n\r\nHad we never loved sae kindly,\r\nHad we never loved sae blindly,\r\nNever met -or never parted,\r\nWe had ne'er been broken-hearted.\r\n\r\nFare thee weel, thou first and fairest!\r\nFare thee weel, thou best and dearest!\r\nThine be ilka joy and treasure,\r\nPeace, enjoyment, love, and pleasure!\r\n\r\nAe fond kiss, and then we sever;\r\nAe fareweel, alas, for ever!\r\nDeep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,\r\nWarring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.\r\n\r\n                       by Robert Burns\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ae Fond Kiss, and then We Sever Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, and then for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I&#8217;ll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I&#8217;ll wage thee. Who shall say that Fortune grieves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/09\/ae-fond-kiss-and-then-we-sever\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,27],"tags":[382,407],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-poetry","tag-personal","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}