{"id":1288,"date":"1992-10-08T18:38:57","date_gmt":"1992-10-09T01:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2012-12-09T18:40:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T02:40:31","slug":"untitled-october-8th-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1992\/10\/08\/untitled-october-8th-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"Untitled, October 8th, 1992"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days now shorten<br \/>\ntheir light becoming more and more precious.<br \/>\nEach day passes and leaves behind<br \/>\nits own residue of what never was done.<br \/>\nThere seems to be so much,<br \/>\ntoo much residue.<br \/>\n(Though even when the days were longer,<br \/>\nthe residue still remained.)<\/p>\n<p>I satisfy myself with knowing<br \/>\nthat satisfaction may come tomorrow,<br \/>\nand am thus satisfied today.<\/p>\n<p>But what to do with this residue?<br \/>\nThose things we never did, those lists,<br \/>\nthose torments of a day too short,<br \/>\na desire too weak,<br \/>\na spirit too broken&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What more can be done,<br \/>\nbut be.<\/p>\n<p>Go on.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on going on,<br \/>\nfor soon the days shall reach their nadir,<br \/>\nand lengthen again thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>But what difference will that make?<br \/>\nTime and seasons marching on,<br \/>\nthose things we never did still haunt us.<br \/>\nLists and days too short,<br \/>\ndesires too weak,<br \/>\nspirits broken.<\/p>\n<p>Go on.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on going on<br \/>\nfor soon the days shall reach their zenith<br \/>\nand shorten again thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>And what a difference will that make&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days now shorten<br \/> their light becoming more and more precious.<br \/> Each day passes and leaves behind<br \/> its own residue of what never was done.<br \/> There seems to be so much,<br \/> too much residue.<br \/> (Though even when the days were longer,<br \/> the residue still remained.)<\/p>\n<p>I satisfy myself with knowing<br \/> that satisfaction may [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}