{"id":1699,"date":"2013-06-25T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2013-06-25T13:20:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T10:20:19","slug":"consolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=1699","title":{"rendered":"Consolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"f91e7979-04d2-48cf-a8e5-58b8e5b51558\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/f91e7979-04d2-48cf-a8e5-58b8e5b51558.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1700\" alt=\"f91e7979-04d2-48cf-a8e5-58b8e5b51558\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/f91e7979-04d2-48cf-a8e5-58b8e5b51558-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/f91e7979-04d2-48cf-a8e5-58b8e5b51558-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/f91e7979-04d2-48cf-a8e5-58b8e5b51558-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/f91e7979-04d2-48cf-a8e5-58b8e5b51558.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\"><strong>Consolation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <br \/>I could be consoled with much less effort<br \/>than it takes to chase a fly from my face &#8211;<br \/>a smile, a nod of approval, the touch of a hand.<br \/>I prefer not, I rather prefer clinging<br \/>to this self-criticism of mine &#8211;<br \/>useless, shameless, a prison of guilt.<br \/>Natural in human terms,<br \/>a desire like the gravity of the earth &#8211;<br \/>pulling, holding its own, escape disallowed.<br \/>Supernatural in human terms,<br \/>an ability to rend the chains and fly &#8211;<br \/>free flight, passing the clouds, transcending the rules.<br \/>I prefer this, prefer to conclude<br \/>escape from this habitual gravity:<br \/>look up, reflect on life, transform into gold.<br \/>I could be inspired with much less effort<br \/>than it takes to take one step forward\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"Garnet Shaw Robbie\" href=\"http:\/\/garnetrobbie.wordpress.com\/poetry-on-poetry\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Garnet Shaw Robbie<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}