{"id":132955,"date":"2023-09-02T15:46:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132955"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:46:53","slug":"a-spell-banish-sadness-a-viator-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-spell-banish-sadness-a-viator-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spell Banish Sadness &#8211; a Viator poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is a series of deaths.<br \/>\nThe death of your love &#8211;<br \/>\nSadness, regrets, tears.<br \/>\nBlack chasm of bitterness.<\/p>\n<p>The faded dandelion wilts on its stalk.<br \/>\nLife is a series of deaths.<br \/>\nBut from the greyed fronds<br \/>\nSeed parachutes snatch breezes of newness.<\/p>\n<p>The baby squirms in its mother\u2019s womb,<br \/>\nComfort of warmth \u2013 why leave? But then<br \/>\nLife is a series of deaths,<br \/>\nAnd birth is the bursting of life.<\/p>\n<p>What do you do after you die?<br \/>\nWhat did Lazarus do?<br \/>\nGrab new life with your teeth; celebrate truth &#8211;<br \/>\nLife is a series of deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is a series of deaths. The death of your love &#8211; Sadness, regrets, tears. Black chasm of bitterness. The faded dandelion wilts on its stalk. Life is a series of deaths. But from the greyed fronds Seed parachutes snatch breezes of newness. The baby&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132955","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\/3109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132979,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132955\/revisions\/132979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}