{"id":320,"date":"2006-07-14T11:19:59","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T19:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willdoherty.org\/wordpress\/?p=320"},"modified":"2024-09-22T22:28:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T22:28:22","slug":"soft-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Soft Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Grampy&#8217;s soft soul is slippery<br>\nwith voided balconies,<br>\noverdosed drugs, and<br>\nthe self-induced pneumonia<br>\nof neglect. He wants to<br>\nbe by her side<br>\nin the great beyond<br>\nafter more than 60 years<br>\ntogether in the here and now.<br>\nThere is no way to explain<br>\nwhy not<br>\nafter all<br>\nwhat consolation is<br>\nan empty apartment of memories<br>\nthat flow stronger than time?<br>\nThe descendants and helpers<br>\nwho bring conscious present<br>\ndo little to stave off<br>\nomnipresent death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2006\/07\/DSCN9042-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2006\/07\/DSCN9042-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2006\/07\/DSCN9042-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2006\/07\/DSCN9042-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2006\/07\/DSCN9042.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grampy&#8217;s soft soul is slippery with voided balconies, overdosed drugs, and the self-induced pneumonia of neglect. He wants to be by her side in the great beyond after more than 60 years together in the here and now. There is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=320\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,55,74,135,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-drugs","category-family","category-literature","category-stardusts-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15698,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/15698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}