{"id":5716,"date":"2020-11-19T12:40:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T12:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5716"},"modified":"2020-11-19T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T12:42:00","slug":"everything-is-illuminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/19\/everything-is-illuminated\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything is Illuminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Billy I have a question for you\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As you are a poet you might be able to answer it<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Go ahead what is your question\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What happens when the lights go out\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Well the obvious answer is that you are in the dark\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But that is a bland answer\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Because even in the vacuum of outer space\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There is an ancient light\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nowhere is completely dark\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Although there is one exception\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That being\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If the lights have been extinguished\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And all you can see is a velvet darkness\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then you are staring into the abyss\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I warn you that if you stare into the abyss\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For any length of time then you will become part of it\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nothing is illuminated in the abyss<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is a Godless place where even angels cannot be found<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Although it is frequently visited by poets artists and philosophers\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy I have a question for you\u00a0 As you are a poet you might be able to answer it Go ahead what is your question\u00a0 What happens when the lights go out\u00a0 Well the obvious answer is that you are in the dark\u00a0 But that is a bland answer\u00a0 Because even in the vacuum of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}