{"id":877,"date":"2013-02-28T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=877"},"modified":"2013-02-12T10:31:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T15:31:13","slug":"anne-carson-from-grief-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2013\/877\/poems\/anne-carson-from-grief-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Carson: from Grief Lessons: Four Plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCome here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.<br \/>\nHave you given much thought to our mortal condition?<br \/>\nProbably not. Why would you? Well, listen.<br \/>\n<em>All mortals owe a debt to death.<\/em><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no one alive<br \/>\nwho can say if he will be tomorrow.<br \/>\nOur fate moves invisibly! A mystery.<br \/>\nNo one can teach it, no one can grasp it.<br \/>\nAccept this! Cheer up! Have a drink!<br \/>\nBut don&#8217;t forget Aphrodite&#8211;that&#8217;s <em>one sweet goddess.<\/em><br \/>\nYou can let the rest go. Am I making sense?<br \/>\nI think so. How about a drink.<br \/>\nPut on a garland. I&#8217;m sure<br \/>\nthe happy splash of wine will cure your mood.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re all mortal you know. Think mortal.<br \/>\nBecause my theory is, there&#8217;s no such thing as life,<br \/>\n<em>it&#8217;s just catastrophe.<\/em>\u201d<br \/>\n<i> <\/i><\/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>\u201cCome 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 alive who can say if he will be tomorrow. Our fate moves invisibly! A mystery. No one can <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2013\/877\/poems\/anne-carson-from-grief-lessons\/' 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":[205,210,211],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-be-happy","tag-mortality","tag-time-is-short","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\/877","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=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}