{"id":759,"date":"2008-05-05T16:28:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T16:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/05\/the-swing-of-things\/"},"modified":"2013-09-30T19:53:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T19:53:57","slug":"the-swing-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/05\/the-swing-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a shadow at the back of the mind.  Just on the verge of being. <\/p>\n<p>A heavy cloud that settles at the base of who and what we are before flying off, upward and onward.  Taking our breath away just as sure as it put it there in the first place.  <\/p>\n<p>A vague, willowy figure that almost <em>isn\u2019t<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s where the whole reaper image comes from.  <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a shadow at the back of the mind. Just on the verge of being. A heavy cloud that settles at the base of who and what we are before flying off, upward and onward. Taking our breath away just as sure as it put it there in the first place. A vague, willowy figure<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5711,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/5711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}