{"id":1399,"date":"2024-08-31T07:30:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T07:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2024-08-31T07:30:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T07:30:28","slug":"the-waters-of-eternal-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/31\/the-waters-of-eternal-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"The waters of eternal youth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem234.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-511\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem234.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem234-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem234-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My well is deep and almost full of sadness,<br>its waters dark, its syrupy contents<br>attracting ants and flies and other creatures:<br>some birds and mice that sunk under the surface,<br>preserved in sugar &#8211; feathers, fur and bones,<br>like little gods, demanding adoration.<br>The lure so sweet: abandon hope,<br>abandon disappointment, strife and effort,<br>become an angel, paragon of virtue,<br>of feathers so smooth, and white, and silky,<br>forever undisturbed, forever perfect,<br>forever still.<br>Intoxicating poison<br>of sugar, death and mystery fermented &#8211;<br>the nectar of the gods,<br>the well of legend<br>containing waters of eternal youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My well is deep and almost full of sadness,its waters dark, its syrupy contentsattracting ants and flies and other creatures:some birds and mice that sunk under the surface,preserved in sugar &#8211; feathers, fur and bones,like little gods, demanding adoration.The lure so sweet: abandon hope,abandon disappointment, strife and effort,become an angel, paragon of virtue,of feathers so [&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":[333,19,334,23,15,332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399"}],"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=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}