{"id":985,"date":"2014-02-06T01:45:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T01:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=985"},"modified":"2014-10-27T01:46:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T01:46:30","slug":"smiles-can-hide-a-million-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/smiles-can-hide-a-million-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Smiles Can Hide a Million Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smiles say more than a thousand words,<br \/>\nBy some folk it is said,<br \/>\nBut some hide the falling of a million tears<br \/>\nThat unseen have been shed.<br \/>\nSo next time you see a worry free smile,<br \/>\nThough you worrying may not be smiling inside&#8230;<br \/>\nRemember you may be the happier,<br \/>\nHaving not the worries the smiler sadly does hide&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2931\" style=\"width: 718px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2931\" alt=\"Smiles Can Hide a Million Tears\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Smiles-Can-Hide-a-Million-Tears.jpg\" width=\"718\" height=\"132\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smiles Can Hide a Million Tears<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<address>This poem was written after reading of the funeral of the tragic Lucy Forster Stack, who in her letter said &#8220;not a million talks over glasses of wine&#8221; could have stopped what she did as she could not cope, &#8220;too much having happened&#8221;. On the outside, to us looking in, she had it all: maybe all our financial worries and stresses of life that make us growl are what makes life worth living, as we have something to aim for.<strong>Lucy Stack, R.I.P. Just one of way too many&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smiles say more than a thousand words, By some folk it is said, But some hide the falling of a million tears That unseen have been shed. So next time you see a worry free smile, Though you worrying may not be smiling inside&#8230; Remember you may be the happier, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[1154,1153,507],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-depression","tag-lucy-forster-stack","tag-suicide","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-fT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":976,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/all-sorts-of-accents-at-accents-cafe\/","url_meta":{"origin":985,"position":0},"title":"All Sorts of Accents at Accents Caf\u00e9","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"27th October 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"As per invitation, we arrived at Accents Caf\u00e9 on Lower Stephens Street for seven-ish. 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