{"id":90335,"date":"2021-06-26T12:21:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90335"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:31:26","slug":"the-great-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-great-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf we meet\u2014\u201c and then he faded again, and kept on fading, until there was nothing left of him to hold back the Great Dark descending on the world, except his words.<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>\u00a0<\/sup>And the Great Dark did descend,<br \/>\nhas descended,<br \/>\nagain and again.<\/p>\n<p>Each time the world finds a savior<br \/>\nDeath eventually steals the presence,<br \/>\nstills the voice,<br \/>\nplunges us into the Great Dark of mourning.<\/p>\n<p>We emerge eventually,<br \/>\nsensing that a new savior has come,<br \/>\nfor now.<\/p>\n<p>With the death of each savior<br \/>\nwe are left with the words,<br \/>\nwords that comfort and inspire.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps language is the only god we need\u2014<br \/>\nthe only one that doesn\u2019t die.<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf we meet\u2014\u201c and then he faded again, and kept on fading, until there was nothing left of him to hold back the Great Dark descending on the world, except his words.1 \u00a0And the Great Dark did descend, has descended, again and again. Each time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90335","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\/1145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94754,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90335\/revisions\/94754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}