{"id":114483,"date":"2022-06-25T18:32:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=114483"},"modified":"2022-06-25T18:32:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:32:26","slug":"grief-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/grief-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the meantime <span style=\"color: #ffffff\">the cat slowly recovered. The socket of the lost eye presented, it is true, a frightful appearance, but<\/span> he no longer appeared to suffer any pain. He went about the house as usual<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">, but, as might be expected, fled in extreme terror at my approach.<\/span> I had so much of my old heart left, <span style=\"color: #ffffff\">as to be at first<\/span> grieved by <span style=\"color: #ffffff\">this evident<\/span> dislike on the part of a creature which had once so loved me. But this <span style=\"color: #ffffff\">feeling<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ffffff\">soon gave place to<\/span> irritation. And <span style=\"color: #ffffff\">then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of PERVERSENESS. Of this spirit philosophy takes no account.<\/span> Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, <span style=\"color: #ffffff\">than I am that perverseness<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ffffff\">is<\/span> one of the <span style=\"color: #ffffff\">primitive<\/span> impulses of the human heart&#8211;<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself<\/span> committing<span style=\"color: #ffffff\"> a vile or<\/span> a stupid action, for no other reason <span style=\"color: #ffffff\">than because<\/span> he knows he should\u00a0<i>not<\/i>? <span style=\"color: #ffffff\">Have<\/span> we not a perpetual inclination, <span style=\"color: #ffffff\">in the teeth of our<\/span> best judgment<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">, to violate that which is\u00a0<i>Law<\/i>, merely because we understand it to be such?<\/span> This spirit <span style=\"color: #ffffff\">of perverseness, I say, came to my final<\/span> overthrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the meantime the cat slowly recovered. The socket of the lost eye presented, it is true, a frightful appearance, but he no longer appeared to suffer any pain. He went about the house as usual, but, as might be expected, fled in extreme terror&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114669,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114483\/revisions\/114669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}