{"id":118,"date":"2021-02-16T03:15:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T03:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2025-03-16T11:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T15:05:50","slug":"the-motion-of-the-beloved-in-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"the motion of the beloved in the night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">the motion of the beloved in the night\nwhen the mind\ndeep in its distraction\nreceives a signal that by-passes the sentinels of conscious thought\nand the internal self turns\nwith a formless\nartless\njoy\nan expectation of reflection\nan anticipation of reunion\nbefore soberer attentions\nreassert themselves\nand like a hand drawing back the buoyant child\nfrom the edge of the abyss\nthe emotive response is\ncut short\nextinguished\nsmothered\nand only the cool emptiness of regret remains behind\nan absence where once there was a presence\na wound only momentarily disturbed\nand a hope rises\nlike a flare in the darkness\nthat this might be\nthe last time<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-74fac58f-3b4c-4b71-a375-0a48943a56d6\">September 17, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the motion of the beloved in the night when the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=118\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the motion of the beloved in the night<\/span> <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11,2],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-11","tag-poetry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}