{"id":317,"date":"2023-08-22T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T16:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=317"},"modified":"2024-12-15T08:18:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T14:18:25","slug":"double-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Double Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In conjunction with my sabbatical, I took the summer off from posting. Not sure if I&#8217;ll continue the weekly posts or go back to occasional. I wrote over 50 poems on sabbatical, so I may put a bunch in one post. Regardless&#8211;I will put this one here; I also posted it on Facebook.<br><br>It&#8217;s a groaning season &#8212; I&#8217;m up to 20 untimely (and a few more expected\/timely\/but painful nonetheless) deaths in the worlds I am close to in the last 5 months. It&#8217;s nuts, and &#8230; oh, the groaning.<br><br>This is sort of about that, or at least fits the groaning theme &#8230; but it&#8217;s actually about more\/different than that. See how it hits you. It&#8217;s funny to say this about one&#8217;s own poem, but like is often the case, it feels sorta like it wrote me, rather than me writing it &#8230; so I&#8217;ve been musing on it and seeing lots of stuff in it.<br><br>The last line is a specific reference to something (Google it if you need help), which itself was a reference to something in the Bible (KJV version). That&#8217;s in play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"239\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/poem-DOUBLE-VISION.png?resize=239%2C548&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-318\" style=\"width:293px;height:670px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/poem-DOUBLE-VISION.png?w=239&amp;ssl=1 239w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/poem-DOUBLE-VISION.png?resize=131%2C300&amp;ssl=1 131w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In conjunction with my sabbatical, I took the summer off from posting. Not sure if I&#8217;ll continue the weekly posts or go back to occasional. I wrote over 50 poems on sabbatical, so I may put a bunch in one post. Regardless&#8211;I will put this one here; I also posted it on Facebook. It&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}