{"id":500,"date":"2009-10-15T18:16:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T09:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kilcher04.net\/?p=500"},"modified":"2009-10-15T18:16:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T09:16:25","slug":"oh-lordy-this-is-how-i-want-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"Oh Lordy, This Is How I Want To Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-501\" title=\"a_dark_starry_night_wallpap\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/a_dark_starry_night_wallpap-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"a_dark_starry_night_wallpap\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The town does not exist<br \/>\nexcept where one black-haired tree slips<br \/>\nup like a drowned woman into the hot sky.<br \/>\nThe town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.<br \/>\nOh starry night! This is how<br \/>\nI want to die.<\/p>\n<p>It moves. They are all alive.<br \/>\nEven the moon bulges in its orange irons<br \/>\nto push children, like a god, from its eye.<br \/>\nThe old unseen serpent swallows up the stars.<br \/>\nOh starry night! This is how<br \/>\nI want to die:<\/p>\n<p>into that rushing beast of the night,<br \/>\nsucked up by that great dragon, to split<br \/>\nfrom my life with no flag,<br \/>\nno belly,<br \/>\nno cry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; \">&#8211; Anne Sexton.<em>\u00a0&#8220;<\/em>The\u00a0Starry Night&#8221;.\u00a0<em>All My Pretty Ones Part 1<\/em>, 1962.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; \">Image source [<a href=\"http:\/\/s3vendays.deviantart.com\/art\/A-Dark-Starry-Night-Wallpaper-68945495\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; \">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The town does not exist except where one black-haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the hot sky. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/?p=500\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[27,34,539,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}