{"id":897,"date":"2014-06-12T01:26:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T00:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=897"},"modified":"2014-06-10T02:02:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T01:02:27","slug":"oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"Oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight hundred years from now<br \/>\nan asteroid as big as a mountain<br \/>\nhas one chance in three hundred<br \/>\nof striking earth.<br \/>\nI pull the blankets over my head.<br \/>\nI, who shall never die,<br \/>\nmust face the inevitable.<br \/>\nThe planets will do me in.<\/p>\n<p>A driver will scratch his nose<br \/>\nand run over me.<br \/>\nA plague,<br \/>\none chance in a thousand<br \/>\nwill leave me wasted in a ditch.<br \/>\nA robber will take my purse<br \/>\nand life,<br \/>\nfor the hell of it.<br \/>\nI am lost.<br \/>\nI am unsaved.<\/p>\n<p>My pact with the Devil<br \/>\nis written in sand.<br \/>\nA wave will wipe it from the beach.<br \/>\nMy immortality is measured by chance,<br \/>\nby fire and flood,<br \/>\nthe droppings of the universe.<br \/>\nSo I am making peace with the world.<br \/>\nNo one can live forever.<br \/>\nWe all exit.<br \/>\nTo imagine my death is unimaginable,<br \/>\nbut c\u2019est la vie, inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Live it up!<br \/>\nBe kind to everyone!<br \/>\nDestroy them with kindness.<br \/>\nBe honest.<br \/>\nShow the world<br \/>\nhow to live dangerously.<br \/>\nBe good.<br \/>\nBe beautiful.<br \/>\nDeath is another face in the mirror.<br \/>\nKiss yourself<br \/>\nand kiss your neighbor.<br \/>\nIt is the least you can do<br \/>\nbeing doomed.<br \/>\nIt is,<br \/>\nclass,<br \/>\na way to get even with fate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight hundred years from now an asteroid as big as a mountain has one chance in three hundred of striking earth. I pull the blankets&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=897\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oblivion<\/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-897","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\/897","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=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4376,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/4376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}