{"id":2704,"date":"1971-12-01T16:41:00","date_gmt":"1971-12-01T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2025-04-08T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:59:07","slug":"fragile-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2704","title":{"rendered":"Fragile Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Fragile is my flower &#8211; Jenny Chan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/purechocolate.org.uk\/music\/fragileflower2.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sub><sup>\u00a9 Stuart Moffatt 1971<\/sup><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The petals of my flower are fragile<br>The stem breaks all to easily<br>And the leaves droop forlornly<br>At the sound of a few unkind words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please do not crush my flower under foot;<br>the blossom took so long to cultivate<br>Please do not crush the life therein.<br>Don&#8217;t trample on my emotions.<br>\u00a9 Jenny Chan 1971<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nwc-scriptorium.org\/db\/mof_frag.id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Noteworthy Scriptorium<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The copyright of the music is held by\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:hymns@purechocolate.org.uk\">Stuart Moffatt (\u00a9 1971)<\/a>.<br>The midi file was produced using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/noteworthycomposer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Noteworthy Composer<\/a>.<br>The mp3\/ogg were produced using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myriad-online.com\/\">Myriad<\/a>\u00a0software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fragile is my flower &#8211; Jenny Chan The petals of my flower are fragileThe stem breaks all to easilyAnd the leaves droop forlornlyAt the sound of a few unkind words. Please do not crush my flower under foot;the blossom took so long to cultivatePlease do not crush the life therein.Don&#8217;t trample on my emotions.\u00a9 Jenny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}