{"id":339,"date":"2021-08-29T19:35:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T19:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2021-08-29T20:06:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T20:06:24","slug":"bitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"Bitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bitter the sound. Bitter the sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bitter the taste and touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bitter the world. Bitter the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bitter the broken and the best.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bitter then, bitter now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bitter the lonely life and death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps instead,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us look, listen, and let.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us be the letters,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That make bitter better<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As dawn makes darkness light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">August 29, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitter the sound. Bitter the sight. Bitter the taste and touch. Bitter the world. Bitter the night. Bitter the broken and the best. Bitter then, bitter now. Bitter the lonely life and death. Perhaps instead, Let us look, listen, and let. Let us be the letters, That make bitter better As dawn makes darkness light&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-bitterness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}