{"id":959,"date":"2007-01-14T17:26:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T15:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/959"},"modified":"2007-04-24T10:07:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T08:07:21","slug":"959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/959","title":{"rendered":"Fascination with darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>The fascination with darkness is nothing new.<br \/>\nThere are no stories or poems left<br \/>\nIn the spaces between lights flickering madly.<br \/>\nThis is a promise, in a way.<br \/>\nThe only darkness that was left was between stars,<br \/>\nAnd that was too far to know.<br \/>\nThe beauty in darkness is its contrast with light,<br \/>\nThe way prayers are chanted under a dome,<br \/>\nThe way anything is allowed under the guise of mistakes,<br \/>\nUnder the comforting blanket of a certainty that darkness<br \/>\nIs now the realm of the beloved.<a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/148\/356686755_1bc7162064_b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/148\/356686755_1bc7162064.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Bahji garden, Saturday January 13th, 2007<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fascination with darkness is nothing new. There are no stories or poems left In the spaces between lights flickering madly. This is a promise, in a way. The only darkness that was left was between stars, And that was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}