{"id":302,"date":"2010-08-04T03:05:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T08:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php"},"modified":"2014-03-24T01:16:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T08:16:45","slug":"humus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/writing\/writing-1994\/humus","title":{"rendered":"Humus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><em>By Martin Falatic<br \/>\nWritten 1994-02-28<br \/>\nRevised 1997-03-19<\/em><\/h5>\n<div class=\"hr\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<pre>We dig deep in the dirt, becoming one with the soil,\r\n     spending our days planting the seeds of tomorrow.\r\nBut what of this gesture, our hands caked in mud?\r\n     Do we honor Mother Earth with our labor,\r\n          for her gift of sustenance and Life?\r\nOr is it a vain attempt to placate Death,\r\n     whose domain we consecrate with our work...?\r\n\r\nAshes to ashes, dust to dust,\r\n     our ultimate destiny, ending where we began.\r\nThe flowers we plant today,\r\n     will become the funeral wreath of tomorrow<\/pre>\n<div class=\"hr\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Falatic Written 1994-02-28 Revised 1997-03-19 We dig deep in the dirt, becoming one with the soil, spending our days planting the seeds of tomorrow. But what of this gesture, our hands caked in mud? Do we honor Mother Earth with our labor, for her gift of sustenance and Life? Or is it a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":276,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-302","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}