{"id":2007,"date":"2014-08-23T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T17:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2014-08-23T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T17:37:17","slug":"fifth-post-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/fifth-post-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Post: Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death<\/p>\n<p>To beat death at its own game,<br \/>\nAnd live on and on forever,<br \/>\nIs this the dream, the wish,<br \/>\nA hope for everafter?<\/p>\n<p>I do not know,<br \/>\nAnd, then, what is the point?<br \/>\nFor Death must surely come for all,<br \/>\nTo carry on alone would be awfully cruel.<\/p>\n<p>We hope there is an afterlife,<br \/>\nAnd live a life good and true,<br \/>\nBut this mortal world will close to us,<br \/>\nWhatever we try to do.<\/p>\n<p>So life your life,<br \/>\nAnd make it count<br \/>\nBe remembered in good words and deeds,<br \/>\nAnd add your verse, for others to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death To beat death at its own game, And live on and on forever, Is this the dream, the wish, A hope for everafter? I do not know, And, then, what is the point? For Death must surely come for all, To carry on alone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2009,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}