{"id":1091,"date":"2024-08-25T15:32:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T15:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2024-08-25T15:32:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T15:32:52","slug":"a-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/25\/a-play\/","title":{"rendered":"A Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"658\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem80.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-170\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem80.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem80-300x247.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem80-768x632.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;All the world&#8217;s a stage\u2026&#8221;<\/em><br>(W. Shakespeare)<br><br>Sit still and look.<br>The play develops.\u00a0<br>It grows from the root of common knowledge.<br>The vessels form and fill with blood and bile.\u00a0<br>Sighs, screams and whispers fill the air.<br>You run headlong into the wall of pain<br>and, winded by the force of impact,<br>stop,<br>doubled up,<br>just breathing.<br>You cry and laugh in turn and in-between.<br>Pain, imperceptibly, becomes a habit<br>but so does the joy &#8211;<br>both dulled by usage.<br>The actor&#8217;s voice,<br>still raised in imprecation,<br>commands attention<br>and, of course, you listen\u2026<br>But now mostly listen to the silence<br>that is to come.<br>The play will soon be over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All the world&#8217;s a stage\u2026&#8221;(W. Shakespeare) Sit still and look.The play develops.\u00a0It grows from the root of common knowledge.The vessels form and fill with blood and bile.\u00a0Sighs, screams and whispers fill the air.You run headlong into the wall of painand, winded by the force of impact,stop,doubled up,just breathing.You cry and laugh in turn and in-between.Pain, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[55,32,172,23,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}