{"id":211,"date":"2017-05-15T21:55:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T21:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/?page_id=211"},"modified":"2023-05-23T21:21:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:21:47","slug":"my-hero-for-my-godfather-roy-rogers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/?page_id=211","title":{"rendered":"My Hero \u2013 for my Godfather Roy Rogers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<h4>With much love &#8230;<\/h4>\n<p><\/center><center><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/royandme0001.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-101 alignnone aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" title=\"royandme0001\" src=\"http:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/royandme0001-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/royandme0001-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/royandme0001.jpg 556w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a> <\/strong><\/center><strong> Through the sagebrush<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tumbleweeds carom in the wind<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like lost souls.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A coyote\u2019s lonely howl<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Echoes down rocky canyon walls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In harmony with the mourning dove<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Into this American landscape<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rides a fair man on a golden horse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The sunrise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Carries the song of his soul<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like a joyful noise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">The Idea of the West<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lives in the heroic block of his Stetson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And the faith and trust<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Of children everywhere<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rest on his shoulders light as air.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> It was a deal he made with himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The King of the Cowboys &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just a man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>With a good heart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who rode into the sunset.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9CINDA 1989<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"\u201dheight: 8em\u201d;\" \/>Read about my mom, former RKO actress, Linda Hayes, and Roy Rogers on the set. Also, find out about my novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luckycinda.com\/page5.php\">&#8220;Francesca of Lost Nation,&#8221; <\/a>and its companion song, <a href=\"http:\/\/luckycinda.com\">&#8220;Stories They Could Tell.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stories.luckycinda.com\/?page_id=691\">Roy Rogers<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stories.luckycinda.com\/?page_id=785\">Linda Hayes<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With much love &#8230; Through the sagebrush Tumbleweeds carom in the wind Like lost souls. A coyote\u2019s lonely howl Echoes down rocky canyon walls In harmony with the mourning dove. Into this American landscape Rides a fair man on a golden horse. The sunrise Carries the song of his soul Like a joyful noise. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":209,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-211","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions\/233"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}