{"id":79,"date":"2013-08-13T02:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/2013\/08\/13\/dinner-at-sunset\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:35:28","slug":"dinner-at-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/dinner-at-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner At Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Our elders say that youthful Hope and ever-ageless Trust,<br>Created the blushing western sunset and pensive eastern dusk<br>Upon discovering their precious earth was but a stiffened trail<br>And their sky would never bear the rains nor sprinkle icy hail\u2014<br>That they, in fact, were leading lives too focused on some goal\u2014<br>Some two-dimensioned peaks to climb, colorless and cold\u2026<br>So Hope matured into Ambition and Trust morphed into Faith<br>And our ancestors with ageless vim turned distance into space.<br>Today we toast their grand design and welcome humans to the feast<br>The task is heavy, we admit, to fill the chair of the deceased<br>But they have Ambition\u2019s blood, and Faith\u2019s hereditary traits<br>Every twilight they\u2019re reminded with colorful displays:<br>That it\u2019s not the peaks but the journey that does a rich life make<br>And a life emotionlessly lived is but a blankened skyslate.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our elders say that youthful Hope and ever-ageless Trust,Created the blushing western sunset and pensive eastern duskUpon discovering their precious earth was but a stiffened trailAnd their sky would never bear the rains nor sprinkle icy hail\u2014That they, in fact, were leading lives too focused on some goal\u2014Some two-dimensioned peaks to climb, colorless and cold\u2026So&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/dinner-at-sunset\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dinner At Sunset<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}