{"id":1856,"date":"2018-11-19T07:34:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:01:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T12:01:58","slug":"on-the-pyre-by-w-c-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1856","title":{"rendered":"On the Pyre by W.C. Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ibn_Sayyid_Murad_al-Husayni_-_Hindu_Couple_United_on_the_Funeral_Pyre_-_Walters_W64919B_-_Full_Page-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1858\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ibn_Sayyid_Murad_al-Husayni_-_Hindu_Couple_United_on_the_Funeral_Pyre_-_Walters_W64919B_-_Full_Page-196x300.jpg 196w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ibn_Sayyid_Murad_al-Husayni_-_Hindu_Couple_United_on_the_Funeral_Pyre_-_Walters_W64919B_-_Full_Page-768x1176.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ibn_Sayyid_Murad_al-Husayni_-_Hindu_Couple_United_on_the_Funeral_Pyre_-_Walters_W64919B_-_Full_Page-669x1024.jpg 669w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ibn_Sayyid_Murad_al-Husayni_-_Hindu_Couple_United_on_the_Funeral_Pyre_-_Walters_W64919B_-_Full_Page.jpg 1176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The villagers, unable to tell them apart,<br \/>\nburned our healers and the witch<br \/>\nleaving no one to save us<br \/>\nwhen the Black Death finally came<\/p>\n<p>Fleas mounted on rats<br \/>\nbent on rape and rapine<br \/>\ncrashing through our defenses<br \/>\nlike a stone through cathedral glass<\/p>\n<p>Alone on the pyre of my wife and children<br \/>\nI hear their laughter and their cries<br \/>\ntheir faces surging up through the cold, gray ash<br \/>\nthe haunting stench of good meat gone bad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The villagers, unable to tell them apart, burned our healers and the witch leaving no one to save us when the Black Death finally came Fleas mounted on rats bent on rape and rapine crashing through our defenses like a stone through cathedral glass Alone on the pyre of my wife and children I hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}