{"id":2325,"date":"2012-04-14T14:48:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T13:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2012-04-14T14:48:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T13:48:58","slug":"living-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2325","title":{"rendered":"Living Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this age time will be unlocked.<br \/>\nYouth will stay, and dying<br \/>\na luxury of the rich<br \/>\ntoo jaded to go on.<br \/>\nWe will have discovered<br \/>\nthe fountain of hope,<br \/>\nof never re-occurring generations.<br \/>\nOnly ourselves,<br \/>\nforever,<br \/>\nto roam the beaches<br \/>\nuntil every dawn burns itself<br \/>\ninside us.<\/p>\n<p>No children to distract our musing,<br \/>\nour endless lovemaking,<br \/>\nthe houses we will have lived in<br \/>\nuntil they fall,<br \/>\nand we turn to the mountains<br \/>\nfor certainty.<br \/>\nSomething that will seem<br \/>\nto last as long as we,<br \/>\nalthough they too will go and leave us.<br \/>\nWe will defeat eternity,<br \/>\nhaving learned to live forever,<br \/>\nuntil eternity says enough,<br \/>\nand leaves.<\/p>\n<p>The universe dissolves<br \/>\ninto occasional vapors,<br \/>\nand somewhere,<br \/>\nthe laughter of children,<br \/>\nthe crying of the bereaved,<br \/>\nthe silence of death<br \/>\nand joy of resurrection,<br \/>\nwill become myths<br \/>\nthat cause us in solitude<br \/>\nto wonder,<br \/>\nwas death a curse or blessing?<br \/>\nCan spring ever return with its love?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this age time will be unlocked. Youth will stay, and dying a luxury of the rich too jaded to go on. We will have&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2325\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living Forever<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-index-of-all-poems","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}