{"id":3564,"date":"2016-03-19T17:01:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T07:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=3564"},"modified":"2016-03-19T17:01:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T07:01:03","slug":"they-are-not-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=3564","title":{"rendered":"THEY ARE NOT LONG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I found this poem, on a scrap of paper, in a novel. It was my handwriting, but I can&#8217;t remember copying it out. I Googled for the poet &#8211; it is Ernest Dowson.<\/p>\n<p><em>They are not long, the weeping and the laughter<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Love and desire and hate<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I think they will have no portion in us after<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We pass the gate<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They are not long, the days of wine and roses<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Out of a misty dream<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Our path emerges for a while, then closes<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Within a dream.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?attachment_id=889\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-889\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bugalugs_005.jpg\" alt=\"bugalugs_005\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I found this poem, on a scrap of paper, in a novel. It was my handwriting, but I can&#8217;t remember copying it out. I Googled for the poet &#8211; it is Ernest Dowson. They are not long, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=3564\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3565,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions\/3565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}