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1974<\/p>\n
Acrylic on canvas | Not for Sale<\/p>\n
36″\u00a0 x 24″<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\n A simpler, sweeter time<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n and I want to go back again<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n to feel the love<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n that we felt then<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n where Old Jake pulled the wagon we rode<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n We smelled the morning glories<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n and we listened to Grampaw\u2019s stories<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n waited for the old white man with a sack<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n filled with chestnuts on his back<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n We cried to fly away with Peter Pan<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n to a far-off, strange, exciting land.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n We played house just the three of us<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n without jealousy, without a fuss.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n A one-room school building in our neighborhood<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n a roaring stove filled with Daddy’s firewood<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n a home to go to when evening came \u2018round<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n as we heard Mama call us clean and sound<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n “Nina, Mary Alice, Ann!! Come inside.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Come in now. It’s getting dark outside!”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n As we dream our little dreams,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n memories flow back in a stream<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n and going home in our hearts begins to stir.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Oh, yes, life was simple,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n and yes, so much sweeter.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Simpler, Sweeter Time 1974 Acrylic on canvas | Not for Sale 36″\u00a0 x 24″ A Simpler, Sweeter Time A simpler, sweeter time and I want to go back again to feel the love that we felt then where Old Jake pulled the wagon we rode We smelled the morning glories and we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[36],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1088","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annstree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annstree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annstree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annstree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annstree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/annstree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/annstree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/1088\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annstree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annstree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annstree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annstree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A Simpler, Sweeter Time<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n