{"id":1393,"date":"2021-08-20T22:18:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T22:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2021-08-20T22:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T22:18:35","slug":"the-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/the-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Featured in 2015 Spring Issue of Rambunctious<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">The Passage\nAnna Pluff, '16\n\nOur bodies are like boats,\nCarrying our souls to their destinations.\nWe were built to harbor our souls\nAgainst the trials of the sea of life.\nWe were meant to weather any storm.\nWe were built strong and carefully\nTo pass through all the waves we may meet.\nYet sometimes, we are conquered\nBy the evils of the sea,\nThe sky is torn open by the lightening\nAnd the red, stormy hue blinds us,\nNo compass can escape.\nOur boats sink,\nBringing our now too heavy souls\nWith it to the bottom of the ocean.\nThere is nothing left but darkness\nAt the pit of the ocean,\nOur capsized boats weather away.\nAnd our souls stay trapped below forever.\nYet even so, other boats can weather\nThose fearful storms.\nTheir hulls are not weighed down\nBy the waters of trepidation.\nSometimes we reach our destination\nAnd the soul is free to depart.\nLeaving its ship behind,\nIts voyage closed and done.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Pluff, &#8217;16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width-single-post.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}