{"id":15803,"date":"2022-03-01T23:18:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T04:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=15803"},"modified":"2022-03-01T23:20:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T04:20:22","slug":"the-two-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=15803","title":{"rendered":"The Two Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earth creates the illusion<br \/>\n&emsp;Of the yellow sun, and the blue sky above.<br \/>\nMoon dispels that delusion<br \/>\n&emsp;The Sky is a raven, the Sun is a dove.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"rightbox\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/01\/Sebastiano_Ricci_015.jpg\/559px-Sebastiano_Ricci_015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"175\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Selene and Endymion\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/01\/Sebastiano_Ricci_015.jpg\/262px-Sebastiano_Ricci_015.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Selene and Endymion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The atmosphere is a womb<br \/>\n&emsp;That protects life in its earthen jar.<br \/>\nBut it is a whited tomb<br \/>\n&emsp;To those who choose to venture afar.<\/p>\n<p>Children do not get along<br \/>\n&emsp;They are unable to achieve consensus.<br \/>\nNo one admits being wrong<br \/>\n&emsp;So they are forever contentious.<\/p>\n<p>Will and desire are persistent<br \/>\n&emsp;Appearances confused with reality.<br \/>\nThings appear self-subsistent<br \/>\n&emsp;Malice unveils its brutality.<\/p>\n<p>Chaos is the lower night<br \/>\n&emsp;The unmanifest lies hidden in the deep.<br \/>\nSelene brings him the light<br \/>\n&emsp;As her kisses sweeten the dreams in his sleep.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">Cf. <em>The Two Nights<\/em>, by Rene Guenon<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth creates the illusion of the yellow sun, and the blue sky above. <span class=\"continue-reading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=15803\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15803"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15811,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15803\/revisions\/15811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}