{"id":231,"date":"2015-06-14T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2015-11-01T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:22:08","slug":"death-of-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/14\/death-of-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of a Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death of a Star<\/p>\n<p>It is said<br \/>\nthat Death,<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>for the ancient,<br \/>\nthe dreary of spirit<br \/>\nand those without sin,<\/p>\n<p>comes effortlessly,<\/p>\n<p>like an old friend<br \/>\nto usher<br \/>\nyou home,<br \/>\nquiet-like<\/p>\n<p>in the night,<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>a seemless event<\/p>\n<p>as if<br \/>\nin not knowing<br \/>\nyou were leaving,<br \/>\nyou may never<br \/>\nhave been here<br \/>\nat all &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>sleep swallowing<br \/>\nitself<\/p>\n<p>to make itself whole.<\/p>\n<p>But what of those<br \/>\nwho die in slow motion<br \/>\nagain and again,<\/p>\n<p>who come to learn<br \/>\nthat living<br \/>\nand dying<br \/>\nare twin sisters<br \/>\nin the same body?<\/p>\n<p>Yet, you bid me<br \/>\nnot speak of such things &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>and that&#8217;s all right;<\/p>\n<p>we both know<br \/>\nsome day<br \/>\nyou will listen,<\/p>\n<p>Just not today.<\/p>\n<p>we both know<\/p>\n<p>soon enough<br \/>\nthere will be fire<br \/>\ntoo close<br \/>\nfor even you<br \/>\nto ignore &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>and the rage<br \/>\nof glaciers<br \/>\nmelting<br \/>\nwill make<br \/>\nchildhood disappear<br \/>\nforever &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>water evaporating<\/p>\n<p>water washing into<br \/>\nwater<\/p>\n<p>everything water<br \/>\nand becoming<br \/>\nwater<\/p>\n<p>these things<br \/>\nin motion now<br \/>\nwith all the meaningless fury<br \/>\nof an ever-changing sea &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You watch<br \/>\nas if suspended,<br \/>\na silent spectator<br \/>\nto the unforgivable<br \/>\nin a god-free zone<\/p>\n<p>and I am struck<br \/>\nby the vast insignificance<br \/>\nof all this grieving,<br \/>\neven as my breath<br \/>\ngrows quiet<br \/>\nunder the ashes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death of a Star It is said that Death, for the ancient, the dreary of spirit and those without sin, comes effortlessly, like an old friend to usher you home, quiet-like in the night,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandyleonvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}