{"id":202332,"date":"2022-01-10T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=202332"},"modified":"2022-01-03T05:39:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T05:39:54","slug":"futura-vecchia-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/01\/futura-vecchia-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Futura Vecchia, New Year\u2019s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Returning, like the Earth<br \/>\nTo the same point in space,<br \/>\nWe go softly to the comfort of destruction,<\/p>\n<p>And consume in flames<br \/>\nA school of fish,<br \/>\nA pair of hens,<br \/>\nA mountain poplar with its moss.<\/p>\n<p>A shiver of sparks sweeps round<br \/>\nThe dark shoulder of the Earth,<br \/>\nFrisson of recognition,<br \/>\nPreparation for another voyage,<\/p>\n<p>And our own gentle bubbles<br \/>\nFloat curious and mute<br \/>\nTowards the black lake<br \/>\nBoiling with light,<br \/>\nTowards the sharp night<br \/>\nWhistling with sound.<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/RebeccaElson1987.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-202333 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/RebeccaElson1987-e1640841368339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Rebecca Anne Wood Elson (2 Jan 1960-19 May 1999) was a Canadian\u2013American astronomer and writer.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returning, like the Earth<br \/>\nTo the same point in space,<br \/>\nWe go softly to the comfort of destruction,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":202333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-202332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}