{"id":1214,"date":"2022-06-10T11:54:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T15:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2024-05-28T08:14:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:14:38","slug":"seems-a-good-time-to-read-some-c-p-cavafy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=1214","title":{"rendered":"Seems a good time to read some C. P. Cavafy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Candles<br><br>The days of the future stand in front of us <br>Like a line of candles all alight\u2014<br>Golden and warm and lively little candles. <br>The days that are past are left behind, <br>A mournful row of candles that are out; <br>The nearer ones are still smoking, <br>Candles cold, and melted, candles bent, <br>I don\u2019t want to see them; their shapes hurt me, <br>It hurts me to remember the light of them at first. <br>I look before me at my lighted candles, <br>I don\u2019t want to turn around and see with horror <br>How quickly the dark line is lengthening, <br>How quickly the candles multiply that have been put out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candles The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight\u2014Golden and warm and lively little candles. The days that are past are left behind, A mournful row of candles that are out; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=1214\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158,23,64],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}