{"id":1389,"date":"2024-08-31T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2024-08-31T07:20:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T07:20:25","slug":"tsurens-sonnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/31\/tsurens-sonnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsuren&#8217;s Sonnet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"811\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem229.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-581\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem229.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem229-296x300.jpg 296w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem229-768x779.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like wilted leaf it falls upon my soul &#8211;<br>this day that wearied me before its start:<br>interminably slow as a whole,<br>unmemorably fast in every part\u2026<br><br>This day is full of empty conversations,<br>of actions I repeat without thought,<br>of petty, unimportant irritations<br>that cause no pain, of deeds that come to nought.<br><br>But in the evening burning leaves begin<br>to raise the flames to empty skies, like prayers.<br>I smell the acrid smoke through my skin<br>with clarity and sharpness of nightmares.<br>Contorted, twisted, dry, as black as coal,<br>the burning autumn leaves subsume my soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like wilted leaf it falls upon my soul &#8211;this day that wearied me before its start:interminably slow as a whole,unmemorably fast in every part\u2026 This day is full of empty conversations,of actions I repeat without thought,of petty, unimportant irritationsthat cause no pain, of deeds that come to nought. But in the evening burning leaves beginto [&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":[327,52,326,23,15,325,328,324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389"}],"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=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}