{"id":868,"date":"2008-08-22T15:36:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/22\/the-unilluminated\/"},"modified":"2013-09-30T19:49:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T19:49:18","slug":"the-unilluminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/22\/the-unilluminated\/","title":{"rendered":"the unilluminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because that\u2019s what death is.  Where the sun don\u2019t shine.  An un-illuminated image that creeps up and cuts the ties that bind us in one cold, sharp swing.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not a morbid person.  It&#8217;s mortality that fascinates me.  Life <strong>is<\/strong> what it <strong>is<\/strong> because it&#8217;s fleeting.  Temporary.  Transient. It wouldn&#8217;t be half as poignant if we were stuck with it for eternity. <\/p>\n<p>My grandmother once told me she didn&#8217;t understand how people could write about death all the time and not be consumed by its ugliness.  But the truth is, death isn&#8217;t ugly.  It just IS.  And it&#8217;s the only real thing humanity has in common.  The being-born bit doesn&#8217;t matter so much because it&#8217;s not part of our consciousness.  It gave us what we got.  That&#8217;s all. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not how we started but where we&#8217;re going that&#8217;s important.  And the story is in the getting there. <\/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>Because that\u2019s what death is. Where the sun don\u2019t shine. An un-illuminated image that creeps up and cuts the ties that bind us in one cold, sharp swing. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212; I&#8217;m not a morbid person. It&#8217;s mortality that fascinates me. Life is what it is because it&#8217;s fleeting. Temporary. Transient. It wouldn&#8217;t be half as poignant<!-- 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":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","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=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4947,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/4947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}