{"id":5832,"date":"2022-10-31T14:38:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T18:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=5832"},"modified":"2022-10-31T14:38:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T18:38:42","slug":"the-red-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2022\/10\/31\/the-red-death\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An especially relevant poem for These TimesTM<\/sup> in which we live. You can read the whole thing here<\/a>, but I especially like the final paragraph:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.<\/p>Edgar Allan Poe<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An especially relevant poem for These TimesTM in which we live. You can read the whole thing here, but I especially like the final paragraph: And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls… Continue reading The Red Death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[517],"class_list":["post-5832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-poetry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-1w4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2525,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/04\/27\/desktop-madness-vol-71\/","url_meta":{"origin":5832,"position":0},"title":"Desktop Madness Vol. 71","author":"Keith Survell","date":"April 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This wallpaper makes fun of both the X-Box's \"Red Ring of Death\" and HAL 9000. 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