{"id":6890,"date":"2021-03-26T12:03:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T12:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=6890"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:12:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T12:12:43","slug":"6890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/26\/6890\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life of Albert Camus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Camus once spoke about the absurdity of being killed in a car crash\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I think that he should have added that it would be just as absurd\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To die of a smoking related disease after too many cigarettes\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Or to drink oneself to death in middle age\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ophelia smiled at me but averted her gaze<\/p>\n<p><em>I am going to jump off of the Dover cliffs tomorrow\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Would consider that absurd Phillip\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Are you suicidal\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No I am happy with you and my life\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then why are you planning to jump from the Dover cliffs\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Because I am interested in the mysteries of flight<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But does not your education tell you that you will be smitten on the rocks below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I might fly like the sea birds\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You have no wings\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How do know that\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I have seen you naked<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You have no wings<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you find my theatre absurd\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No I find it quite enjoyable\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But do not jump from the cliffs tomorrow\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I do not intend to\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It was never my intention to jump from the cliffs\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That is good to know\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I may have wings you know<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But I choose not to fly\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camus once spoke about the absurdity of being killed in a car crash\u00a0 I think that he should have added that it would be just as absurd\u00a0 To die of a smoking related disease after too many cigarettes\u00a0 Or to drink oneself to death in middle age\u00a0 Ophelia smiled at me but averted her gaze [&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\/6890"}],"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=6890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}