{"id":1102,"date":"2015-06-12T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2015-08-03T10:46:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T14:46:44","slug":"anne-carson-its-just-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2015\/1102\/poems\/anne-carson-its-just-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Carson: &#8230;it&#8217;s just catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #181818;\">Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">Probably not. Why would you? Well, listen.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><em style=\"color: #181818;\">All mortals owe a debt to death.<\/em><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">There&#8217;s no one alive<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">who can say if he will be tomorrow.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">Our fate moves invisibly! A mystery.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">No one can teach it, no one can grasp it.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">Accept this! Cheer up! Have a drink!<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">But don&#8217;t forget Aphrodite&#8211;that&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #181818;\">one sweet goddess.<\/em><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">You can let the rest go. Am I making sense?<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">I think so. How about a drink.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">Put on a garland. I&#8217;m sure<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">the happy splash of wine will cure your mood.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">We&#8217;re all mortal you know. Think mortal.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">Because my theory is, there&#8217;s no such thing as life,<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><em style=\"color: #181818;\">it&#8217;s just catastrophe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/>&#8211;\u00a0<em>Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?Probably not. Why would you? Well, listen.All mortals owe a debt to death.There&#8217;s no one alivewho can say if he will be tomorrow.Our fate moves invisibly! A mystery.No one can teach it, no one can grasp it.Accept <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2015\/1102\/poems\/anne-carson-its-just-catastrophe\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-this-mortal-coil","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}