{"id":92374,"date":"2020-05-04T12:22:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T16:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92374"},"modified":"2020-05-04T17:43:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T21:43:16","slug":"monday-food-for-thought-when-death-comes-by-mary-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92374","title":{"rendered":"Monday Food for Thought&#8211;When Death Comes by Mary Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it&#8217;s over, I want to say all my life<br \/>\nI was a bride married to amazement.<br \/>\nI was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.<\/p>\n<p>When it&#8217;s over, I don&#8217;t want to wonder<br \/>\nif I have made of my life something particular, and real.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to find myself sighing and frightened,<br \/>\nor full of argument.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to end up simply having visited this world<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phys.unm.edu\/~tw\/fas\/yits\/archive\/oliver_whendeathcomes.html\">Read it carefully and read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is what it looks like when the sun hits a pelican&#8217;s beak just right. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4X33BkTVQG\">pic.twitter.com\/4X33BkTVQG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nature is Lit&#x1f525; (@NaturelsLit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NaturelsLit\/status\/1253505518884188161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it&#8217;s over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it&#8217;s over, I don&#8217;t want to wonder if I have made of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92374\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[438,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-burial-funerals","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92376,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92374\/revisions\/92376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}