{"id":3074,"date":"2009-02-01T21:51:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T02:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2009-02-01T21:52:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T02:52:42","slug":"about-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/3074","title":{"rendered":"About Right…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Sullivan…<\/p>\n

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It came to me the other day:
\nWere I to die, no one would say,
\n“Oh, what a shame! So young, so full
\nOf promise — depths unplumbable!”<\/p>\n

Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes
\nWill greet my overdue demise;
\nThe wide response will be, I know,
\n“I thought he died a while ago.”<\/p>\n

For life’s a shabby subterfuge,
\nAnd death is real, and dark, and huge.
\nThe shock of it will register
\nNowhere but where it will occur.<\/p>\n

–John Updike<\/a><\/p>\n

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He called it a poem for Sunday.  I’d say it makes a good Valentine’s Day poem.  Or an any day poem at this stage of my life.  Being as I am, at that age where death isn’t totally unexpected…<\/p>\n

"I thought he died a while ago…"<\/p>\n

I hate this time of year.  Not only is it dark and cold and covered with ice, la, la, la, la, la…it’s that Most Romantic Day Of The Year!   !!!\n<\/p>\n

Er…wait a minute…  Maybe there’s a connection…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Sullivan… It came to me the other day: Were I to die, no one would say, “Oh, what a shame! So young, so full Of promise — depths unplumbable!” Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes Will greet my overdue demise; The wide response will be, I know, “I thought he died a while ago.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-dumpsville-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}