{"id":3295,"date":"2013-10-27T16:04:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T14:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2013-10-27T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T14:08:17","slug":"ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3295","title":{"rendered":"Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"gregory_colbert2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gregory_colbert21.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3300\" alt=\"gregory_colbert2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gregory_colbert21.jpg\" width=\"421\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Ashes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We carry the weight <br \/> of all our yesterdays, <br \/> in large awkward boxes <br \/> with no handles, <br \/> till aching arms <br \/> force us to lift it <br \/> to a shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Pain and sorrow <br \/> are packed in the bottom <br \/> for stability and balance <br \/> with laughter and joy <br \/> on top <br \/> to try and lighten the load.<\/p>\n<p>Today <br \/> I will go outside <br \/> and burn them <br \/> knowing that <br \/> tomorrow I will <br \/> sift through the ashes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Tom Hemeon<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-3295","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\/3295","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=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}