{"id":2634,"date":"2026-10-16T16:13:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2026-10-16T16:13:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:13:51","slug":"hail-and-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/16\/hail-and-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail and farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Three people <br>Are cleaning <br>Two stones (two women)<br>In one graveyard (one man)<br><br>Scrubbing the pain away<br>Wash the graves with fairy liquid<br>As if death might be made fresh<br>Cleansed<br><br>Remind me<br>Of the wretched funeral rites<br>Of Cattallus 101's (introduction to grief)<br>Dirty grief (filthy grief)<br><br>Two body parts <br>Serve no purpose<br>The clitoris and the tear duct <br>The twin echoes of wailing mothers<br><br>Filthy grief<br>Is sanitised <br>With every repetition (wipe away the rage)<br>More absurd (good as new)<br><br>Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people Are cleaning Two stones (two women)In one graveyard (one man)Scrubbing the pain awayWash the graves with fairy liquidAs if death might be made freshCleansedRemind meOf the wretched funeral ritesOf Cattallus 101&#8217;s (introduction to grief)Dirty grief (filthy grief)Two body &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/16\/hail-and-farewell\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-stuffs-sic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","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=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}