{"id":4705,"date":"2015-07-11T20:06:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T01:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2015-07-11T20:06:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T01:06:37","slug":"wrought-of-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/poetry\/wrought-of-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrought, of Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>~ <strong>Wrought, of Stone<\/strong> ~<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ~<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Modern buildings wrought<\/em><br \/>\n<em> by man and so quickly sold<\/em><br \/>\n<em> no longer last as do the<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ancient structures<\/em><br \/>\n<em> of old.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> What differs?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The builders,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> or the sand<\/em><br \/>\n<em> they cast into transient,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> impermanent stone?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ~<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Humanity&#8217;s efforts to better nature<\/em><br \/>\n<em> are misguided at best,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> and soon fail before Time&#8217;s tests.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> All humanity has ever built is doomed<\/em><br \/>\n<em> for Nature will once more take<\/em><br \/>\n<em> its rightful place,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> and from earth&#8217;s cruelly scarred face,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> of us,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> every single sorry trace<\/em><br \/>\n<em> erase.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ~<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Is all of humanity<\/em><br \/>\n<em> already doomed to return into the<\/em><br \/>\n<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CGAyling\/status\/337019678171992064\">dust<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em> from whence we came?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Only Time will tell,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> but will we be here<\/em><br \/>\n<em> to listen when Time<\/em><br \/>\n<em> tells her tales?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> ~<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4706\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4706\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wrough-of-stone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4706\" src=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wrough-of-stone-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"modern efforts dwindling to dust.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">modern efforts dwindling to dust.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ Wrought, of Stone ~ ~ Modern buildings wrought by man and so quickly sold no longer last as do the ancient structures of old. What differs? The builders, or the sand they cast into transient, impermanent stone? ~ Humanity&#8217;s efforts to better nature are misguided at best, and soon fail before Time&#8217;s tests. All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[201,421],"class_list":["post-4705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-humanity","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}