{"id":353,"date":"2025-10-26T09:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:22:58","slug":"after-were-done-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/26\/after-were-done-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"After We&#8217;re Done (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>After We\u2019re Done<\/strong><br><br>The sky will be strangely blank<br>without cross-hatched contrails, emptier still<br>as satellites through the years fall and burn.<br>Bridges will crumble into rivers,<br>highways buckle and break, houses decay.<br>The wind will be clean of car exhaust,<br>factory smoke, slaughterhouse stink,<br>tobacco, pot and perfume.<br>Humans will be gone, but Earth<br>will be inhabited.<br>Cardinals will shout at sparrows<br>going after\u00a0the same\u00a0wildflower\u00a0seeds,<br>foxes will teach pups to hunt,<br>bees will build homes and go to work.<br>A generation of dogs and cats<br>will feel like something is missing.<br>Then the population of the world<br>will forget the creatures<br>that wore clothes and had names,<br>and get on with their important lives.<br><br>\u2014\u00a0<em>Carl Bettis<\/em><br><em>2025-10-25<\/em><br><br><em>Halloween Day 25<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sky will be strangely blank \/ without cross-hatched contrails&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[34,35,10],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-2025","category-poetry","tag-halloween","tag-halloween-2025","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}