{"id":1284,"date":"2026-05-25T10:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:43:25","slug":"the-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/the-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Past is past;<br>We can never know time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time is only memory,<br>A previous life stretched,<br>Calibrated in artifice,<br>Checked by rusting chains.<br>Dylan, who measured time \u2014<br>Time that let him play and be \u2014<br>In lamb-white days,<br>Knew too well that time&#8217;s constraints<br>Would hold him green and dying.<br>We created our mythology of time<br>To index our simple lives, but \u00a0<br>Time is life past and life to come<br>And our petty measures<br>Can only frame our misered view<br>As we, heedless, dance ever forward<br>Beneath the blue-framed sun<br>And a myriad stars in a naked sky<br>Which retain a myriad alien times. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Future is future.<br>A time like any other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past is past;We can never know time. Time is only memory,A previous life stretched,Calibrated in artifice,Checked by rusting chains.Dylan, who measured time \u2014Time that let him play and be \u2014In lamb-white days,Knew too well that time&#8217;s constraintsWould hold him green and dying.We created our mythology of timeTo index our simple lives, but \u00a0Time is life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19,18],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-chris-armstrong","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}