Summary:\u00a0 Wishes for the new year as the old year ends.<\/p>\n
Rating:\u00a0 G\u00a0 (140 words)<\/p>\n
As the Old Year Ends<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n As the grandfather clock begins to chime,<\/p>\n To summon the start of a brand New Year,<\/p>\n I give thanks for the gifts of the year just ending,<\/p>\n And for family and friends gathered here.<\/p>\n \n As glasses are raised in celebration,<\/p>\n I wonder what this next year will hold,<\/p>\n Will the summer heat bring endless drought?<\/p>\n The winter deep snows and biting cold?<\/p>\n \n I look to my sons, Hoss, Adam and Joe,<\/p>\n I hope the year will be good to my boys,<\/p>\n May they fare well, be healthy and strong,<\/p>\n And know no sorrows, only joys.<\/p>\n \n And for all my dear friends gathered here,<\/p>\n To celebrate, with us, the turning of the year,<\/p>\n May the months ahead be pleasant ones,<\/p>\n Filled with happiness and good cheer.<\/p>\n \n HAPPY NEW YEAR!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summary:\u00a0 Wishes for the new year as the old year ends.<\/p>\n Rating:\u00a0 G\u00a0 (140 words)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":14847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-full-width-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","wpcat-9-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/New-Years.jpg?fit=191%2C263&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}