{"id":940,"date":"1988-04-26T00:35:05","date_gmt":"1988-04-26T07:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2012-01-24T00:37:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T08:37:07","slug":"i-met-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1988\/04\/26\/i-met-two\/","title":{"rendered":"I Met Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perchance, while alone one darkening eve,<br \/>\nHappenstance would introduce me to one I&#8217;d heard<br \/>\nBrought terror and fear, and made people grieve,<br \/>\nWhen face to face and eye to eye,<br \/>\nWith him they came (for it meant a good\u00acbye).<br \/>\nBut his name was to me, just a word.<\/p>\n<p>Just a word and a word no more, his name,<br \/>\nDeath it was that I met that night,<br \/>\nA death that was feared just the same.<br \/>\nNone had known and none really knew<br \/>\nThe side of death that was really true,<br \/>\nThe side for which death was contrite.<\/p>\n<p>I analyzed death as there he stood<br \/>\nAnd was perplexed but satisfied when at last I found<br \/>\nDeath to be nothing more than what would<br \/>\nBe seen as a schizoid manifestation of life<br \/>\nAn illogical cause of so much strife<br \/>\nWhenever death was around<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perchance, while alone one darkening eve,<br \/> Happenstance would introduce me to one I&#8217;d heard<br \/> Brought terror and fear, and made people grieve,<br \/> When face to face and eye to eye,<br \/> With him they came (for it meant a good\u00acbye).<br \/> But his name was to me, just a word.<\/p>\n<p>Just a word and a word no [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-metaphysical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","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=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}