{"id":1334,"date":"2009-01-30T07:47:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T14:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/01\/requiem-by-a-heavyweight\/"},"modified":"2009-01-30T07:50:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T14:50:06","slug":"requiem-by-a-heavyweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/30\/requiem-by-a-heavyweight\/","title":{"rendered":"Requiem By A Heavyweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/29\/opinion\/29updike.html\" target=\"_blank\">from the NY Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 3px\"><nyt_headline type=\" \" version=\"1.0\">Requiem<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt\" class=\"byline\">By JOHN UPDIKE<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/updike2.png\" align=\"right\" alt=\"updike2.png\" \/>It came to me the other day:<br \/>\nWere I to die, no one would say,<br \/>\n\u201cOh, what a shame! So young, so full<br \/>\nOf promise \u2014 depths unplumbable!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes<br \/>\nWill greet my overdue demise;<br \/>\nThe wide response will be, I know,<br \/>\n\u201cI thought he died a while ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For life\u2019s a shabby subterfuge,<br \/>\nAnd death is real, and dark, and huge.<br \/>\nThe shock of it will register<br \/>\nNowhere but where it will occur.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<span class=\"italic\">\u00a0JOHN UPDIKE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic>This poem is taken from John Updike\u2019s forthcoming collection, \u201cEndpoint and Other Poems.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/29\/opinion\/29updike.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the NY Times Requiem By JOHN UPDIKE It came to me the other day: Were I to die, no one would say, \u201cOh, what a shame! So young, so full Of promise \u2014 depths unplumbable!\u201d Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes Will greet my overdue demise; The wide response will be, I know, \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}