{"id":2612,"date":"2026-02-25T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:51:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:51:01","slug":"gravity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/25\/gravity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vk1T6-xGnlU?si=BlCBDe-MyHjNDlw4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Falls like ash<br>On graves and lights<br>In cemeteries and streets<br>Of an alien city<br><br>What pyre<br>Gazes across yellow<br>Bulbs and crosses<br>Unknown to sleeping warmth<br><br>Falling on the fallen on the fallen<br>Falling across the universe<br>Falling across the guilty<br>And the innocent<br><br>A moment that will soften<br>In minutes<br>Yet still frozen<br>Looking enviously at heated orange lives<br><br>From bars without lovers<br>Boozers without light<br>To pass<br>The graveless and the graved<br><br>Walking above the city<br>Noticing the dead for the first time<br>As if white paint<br>Was advertising it<br><br>For anxious men<br>Whose nerves<br>Echo in ours<br>And again to the next<br><br>Can be remembered on lonely walks <br>Between two problems<br>To be forgotten <br>In the morning's melt<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falls like ashOn graves and lightsIn cemeteries and streetsOf an alien cityWhat pyreGazes across yellowBulbs and crossesUnknown to sleeping warmthFalling on the fallen on the fallenFalling across the universeFalling across the guiltyAnd the innocentA moment that will softenIn minutesYet still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/25\/gravity-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[4,235],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-stuffs-sic","category-poetry","tag-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}