{"id":99278,"date":"2017-10-02T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=99278"},"modified":"2017-09-26T15:44:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T14:44:05","slug":"sometimes-we-are-hosts-otherwise-we-are-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/10\/sometimes-we-are-hosts-otherwise-we-are-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes We Are Hosts, Otherwise We Are Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we are hosts, otherwise we are guests,<br \/>\nAt all times and in all places we are prisoners of life.<br \/>\nThere is little joy and too much strife,<br \/>\nWhich razes often our family nest.<br \/>\nWho will tell us which place is the best?<br \/>\nWe move in the darkness to give up the ghost.<br \/>\nIn the boundless past everything was lost.<br \/>\nNobody knows the distinction between host and guest.<br \/>\nWhy the life chances this Jesuit test?<br \/>\nWhy in old age do we need less<br \/>\nTo glorify and to make progress,<br \/>\nAnd why so often blows Nord-west?<br \/>\nWith age you have more painful chest,<br \/>\nWith age our years do gather speed.<br \/>\nWhat the matter with life indeed?<br \/>\nBitterness has mixed with zest!<br \/>\n___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/adolf-shwedchikov-e1494529780195.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-85262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/adolf-shwedchikov-e1494529780195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a><em>Dr. Adolf P. Shvedchikov is a Russian scientist, poet and translator. He has published over 150 scientific papers and 16 books in poetry. His poems has been translated into many languages and has been published in Russia, USA, Brazil, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, France, Greece, UK, Italy, Romania, Albania\u00a0 and Australia. In 2013 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He may be contacted at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:adolfps@gmail.com\"><strong>adolfps@gmail.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we are hosts, otherwise we are guests,<br \/>\nAt all times and in all places we are prisoners of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99278","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=99278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}