{"id":77,"date":"2011-04-12T17:38:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/wordpress\/?p=77"},"modified":"2015-05-17T01:35:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T01:35:28","slug":"the-difficulty-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/the-difficulty-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difficulty Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-77-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheDifficultyIsVx3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheDifficultyIsVx3.mp3\">https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheDifficultyIsVx3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am not yet afraid of this occasion,<br \/>\nmy abrupt death, the sinking sense<br \/>\nof the fine leaves and long fingered night;<br \/>\nI am not afraid of the cold lingering light<br \/>\non the table, near which I sat on so many Octobers,<br \/>\nor watched the May grieve at the tubby<br \/>\nwoman next door, or the panting retriever,<br \/>\nor the children at hop skip jump<br \/>\nin an utter and controlled silence.<br \/>\nWhat I fear is life<br \/>\nthat no one holds in their hands,<br \/>\nthat goes in every direction<br \/>\nand does not care what it tips over.<br \/>\nThere is no silvery meaning in this.<br \/>\nIt is the fact that we are the living,<br \/>\nthat we touch, hold, kiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheDifficultyIsVx3.mp3 &nbsp; I am not yet afraid of this occasion, my abrupt death, the sinking sense of the fine leaves and long fingered night; I am not afraid of the cold lingering light on the table, near which I sat on so many Octobers, or watched the May grieve at the tubby woman next door, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}