{"id":90,"date":"2010-07-27T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/le-champignon.net\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2010-07-27T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T16:30:07","slug":"when-death-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/le-champignon.net\/blog\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"all my life i was a bride married to amazement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When Death Comes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When death comes<br \/>\nlike the hungry bear in autumn<br \/>\nwhen death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse<\/p>\n<p>to buy me, and snaps his purse shut;<br \/>\nwhen death comes<br \/>\nlike the measle pox;<\/p>\n<p>when death comes<br \/>\nlike an iceberg between the shoulder blades,<\/p>\n<p>I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering;<br \/>\nwhat is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?<\/p>\n<p>And therefore I look upon everything<br \/>\nas a brotherhood and a sisterhood,<br \/>\nand I look upon time as no more than an idea,<br \/>\nand I consider eternity as another possibility,<\/p>\n<p>and I think of each life as a flower, as common<br \/>\nas a field daisy, and as singular,<\/p>\n<p>and each name a comfortable music in the mouth<br \/>\ntending as all music does, toward silence,<\/p>\n<p>and each body a lion of courage, and something<br \/>\nprecious to the earth.<\/p>\n<p>When it\u2019s over, I want to say: all my life<br \/>\nI was a bride married to amazement.<br \/>\nI was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.<\/p>\n<p>When it\u2019s over, I don\u2019t want to wonder<br \/>\nif I have made of my life something particular, and real.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t want to find myself sighing and frightened<br \/>\nor full of argument.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to end up simply having visited this world.<\/p>\n<p>~Mary Oliver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps his purse shut; when death comes like the measle pox; when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/le-champignon.net\/blog\/?p=90\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,35],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/le-champignon.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/le-champignon.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/le-champignon.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/le-champignon.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/le-champignon.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/le-champignon.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/le-champignon.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/le-champignon.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/le-champignon.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}