{"id":2137,"date":"2015-06-09T17:55:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T00:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?page_id=2137"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:33:08","slug":"iris","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/iris\/","title":{"rendered":"Pangs like Old Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">At the end of every storm we\u2019ve grown used<br \/>\nto we feel exposed. There is too much light.<br \/>\nGone the swaths of cloud wind tore like<br \/>\nclotted bandages from the sky of tarnished tin.<br \/>\nWe hear blood reverberating in our ears,<br \/>\nwonder whether others divine our thought\u2019s<br \/>\ntempest. Aren\u2019t our minds crossed with roiling<br \/>\nsquall the better to conceal the tack of our bark?<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Something is \u00a0over. That is enough.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yet wouldn\u2019t we rather it not? We\u2019re so<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> naked when calm. When spasms abate,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> we\u2019re alone, seeking out pangs like old friends<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> who suddenly are gone. Through a bright cleft<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> in the clouds sunbeams rain down upon us.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of every storm we\u2019ve grown used to we feel exposed. There is too much light. Gone the swaths of cloud wind tore like clotted bandages from the sky of tarnished tin. We hear blood reverberating in our ears, wonder whether others divine our thought\u2019s tempest. Aren\u2019t our minds crossed with roiling squall &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/iris\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pangs like Old Friends&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3496,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2137","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5200,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2137\/revisions\/5200"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}