{"id":38788,"date":"2017-08-05T21:01:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38788"},"modified":"2017-08-05T21:01:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:01:01","slug":"the-chandrasekhar-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-chandrasekhar-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chandrasekhar Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All we knew at the beginning was the preciousness<br \/>\nof our combined strength, of the iron at our core.<\/p>\n<p>Oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen mingled together<br \/>\nwith intense heat, with unquenchable fire.<\/p>\n<p>Two points of light, each caught in the gravity<br \/>\nof the mutual attraction, of the heavenly dance:<\/p>\n<p>A pirouette, circling to a pas de deux, adagio&#8211;<br \/>\nSwirling like glittering tulle in the blackness of space.<\/p>\n<p>Suns beget sons when this threshold is overstepped<br \/>\nThe Chandrasekhar limit seals their fate.<\/p>\n<p>The heaviness of being, the pressure of the heart<br \/>\nfinally expose the true nature of this sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>When we burst into a supernova, there will be gold.<\/p>\n<p>When we explode into pieces, there can be life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All we knew at the beginning was the preciousness of our combined strength, of the iron at our core. Oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen mingled together with intense heat, with unquenchable fire. Two points of light, each caught in the gravity of the mutual attraction, of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38788","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\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38812,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38788\/revisions\/38812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}