{"id":254,"date":"2010-08-16T02:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:06:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:06:29","slug":"memento-mori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Memento mori"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mmori2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mmori2-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505797628142097698\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>There is no need for me to keep a skull on my desk<\/i>,<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mmori5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mmori5-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505797779346323906\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>to stand with one foot upon the ruins of Rome,<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mmori4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mmori4-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505798103008166002\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>or wear a locket with the sliver of a saint&#8217;s bone<\/i>.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mmori3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mmori3-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505797957926819346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>It is enough to realize that every common object<\/i><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mmori1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mmori1-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505798247794607234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>in this sunny little room will outlive me.*<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Yet another vacant lot in Asbury Park where urban blight is being reimagined daily as art (or kitsch?)  The long abandoned foundation pillars were wrapped in colorful fabric months ago by a local artist; the stone cairns and mementos left behind lately seem a futile offering to the fickle gods of real estate development.<\/p>\n<p>*from <i>Memento Mori<\/i> by Billy Collins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no need for me to keep a skull on my desk, to stand with one foot upon the ruins of Rome, or wear a locket with the sliver of a saint&#8217;s bone. It is enough to realize that every common object in this sunny little room will outlive me.* Yet another vacant lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Memento mori<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}