{"id":359,"date":"2025-10-27T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:48:05","slug":"the-triumph-of-life-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/27\/the-triumph-of-life-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Triumph of Life (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Triumph of Life<\/strong><br><br><span style=\"font-size:smaller;margin-left:1rem;\"><em>&#8220;Death, thou shalt die.&#8221; \u2014 John Donne<\/em><\/span><br><br>When this world floats dead,<br>not a microbe left to twitch\u2014<br>the last creature&#8217;s skin<br>worn by wind to dermal dust\u2014<br>Earth will be the corpse<br>of all our corpses. No one<br>will mourn, remember,<br>or be haunted. In our deaths,<br>even ghosts will die.<br><br><em>\u2014 Bryant Jacobi<\/em><br><em>10\/27\/25<\/em><br><br><em>Halloween Day 27<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When this world floats dead, \/ not a microbe left to twitch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-359","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\/359","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}