{"id":350,"date":"2015-02-21T02:07:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T07:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2015-02-21T02:07:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T07:07:51","slug":"the-death-of-plato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/21\/the-death-of-plato\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Plato"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-type: arial, sans-serif;\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 125%;\">The Death of Plato<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 100%; font-size: 110%;\">I wonder in the end<br \/>\nif Plato realized<br \/>\nthis old flesh<br \/>\nwas more than just<br \/>\nthe shadow of himself,<br \/>\nmore than just<br \/>\na flickering recollection<br \/>\ndivorced from time?<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 100%; font-size: 110%;\">Did his hand take<br \/>\nhis flesh in hand<br \/>\nand feel the frailty<br \/>\nof human life,<br \/>\nthe promise and hope<br \/>\nof something sweeter?<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 100%; font-size: 110%;\">Did he wish<br \/>\nfor all the flesh once knew<br \/>\nnow that Spirit<br \/>\nshouted Triumph<br \/>\nand left his flesh behind?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Bill Stifler<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Death of Plato I wonder in the end if Plato realized this old flesh was more than just the shadow of himself, more than just a flickering recollection divorced from time? Did his hand take his flesh in hand and feel the frailty of human life, the promise and hope of something sweeter? Did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tPlD-5E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}