{"id":20,"date":"2004-05-24T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/?p=20"},"modified":"2012-01-31T07:39:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T07:39:09","slug":"epithalamion-for-nick-and-%ea%b2%bd%ec%a3%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/2004\/05\/epithalamion-for-nick-and-%ea%b2%bd%ec%a3%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Epithalamion <em>(for Nick and \uacbd\uc8fc)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now the strange and blood-heavy lushness of spring<br \/>\nis passing; the air, once thick-pollen&#8217;d, borne off<br \/>\nby some breeze we all feel\u2014and so let us have<br \/>\ndone with it, and bear down for the long, hot promise<br \/>\nof summer that is settling into our bodies. This is<br \/>\nthe heart of the covenant, as you turn and look into<br \/>\nher face, and you turn and look into his, and speak<br \/>\nthese words that mention, so briefly, the end of winter,<br \/>\nthe dark of the snow that covers the end of all promises,<br \/>\nthat makes us ache as we hear you say it, and yet\u2014<br \/>\nnone who sees you standing together could doubt<br \/>\nthe wisdom of everything; not even the <em>theodicy<\/em> could<br \/>\nswerve him; he who can read would see it on our faces<br \/>\nwho gather here to be in your sunlight, and feel<br \/>\nfor ourselves, the summer that is shining from you both.<br \/>\nThe world is the same, one season following the last,<br \/>\nyet once more, somehow, has changed absolutely forever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Gord Sellar, for a wedding on Saturday, May 22nd, 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now the strange and blood-heavy lushness of spring is passing; the air, once thick-pollen&#8217;d, borne off by some breeze we all feel\u2014and so let us have done with it, and bear down for the long, hot promise of summer that is settling into our bodies. This is the heart of the covenant, as you turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[12],"series":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epithalamia","category-poems-kr","tag-love-poems"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xIep-k","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}