{"id":1080,"date":"2014-01-20T22:36:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T22:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illumination2.wordpress.com\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2014-01-20T22:36:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T22:36:26","slug":"dead-mans-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/20\/dead-mans-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead-man&#8217;s Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dead-man\u2019s Pass<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Up in the hills<br \/>\nWhere the wind whistles through the trees<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;\">There is a tiny pass<br \/>\n<\/span>Where men have given all they had<br \/>\nTo control that which was there before their time<\/p>\n<p>Their ghosts still haunt the rocks and ravens below<br \/>\nStay still for a moment<br \/>\nSee out of the corners of your eyes their fleeting form<br \/>\nFeel their breathes upon your shoulder<br \/>\nLooking for what &#8211; it\u2019s difficult to tell<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;\">Both slaves and free alike<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;\">Rich and poor the same<br \/>\n<\/span>All perish alike \u2013 food for the worms<br \/>\nNo forge has yet minted the coin to stay death\u2019s withered hand<br \/>\nFor when upon the shoulder it rests<br \/>\nNot even the cords that bind can save a soul<\/p>\n<p>Up in the hills<br \/>\nThe patched earth kills the very grass that holds the soil in place<br \/>\nThe vultures\u2019 bones are just as white as the bones of the men who fought and bickered and died<br \/>\nI stood still and let the winds carry away my thoughts<br \/>\nReplacing them with the whispers of men long dead<br \/>\nTheir desires and aches<br \/>\nTheir loves and hates<br \/>\nAt Dead-man\u2019s Pass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead-man\u2019s Pass Up in the hills Where the wind whistles through the trees There is a tiny pass Where men have given all they had To control that which was there before their time Their ghosts still haunt the rocks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/20\/dead-mans-pass\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[262,424,462,477,752,908,925,1000,1055,1089],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dead-man","tag-ghost","tag-haunt","tag-hill","tag-pass","tag-slave","tag-soul","tag-thought","tag-vulture","tag-worm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}