{"id":417,"date":"2026-06-25T12:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/?page_id=417"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:34:30","slug":"song-of-death","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/?page_id=417","title":{"rendered":"SONG OF DEATH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">How do you describe death?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">With sad poems?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">Or maybe with voices screaming inside your head?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe death is joy?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\">It frees us from ecstasies?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph\">Or maybe death is happiness \u2014 given by the gods \u2014 for future suffering?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7 wp-block-paragraph\">If death comes suddenly \u2014 your circle of friends will grow!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8 wp-block-paragraph\">Even those who hated you will come to your grave!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9 wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, how nice!!!!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-10 wp-block-paragraph\">They&#8217;ll whisper words of love \u2014 as if any of it matters to you now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-11 wp-block-paragraph\">Or maybe death is childbirth?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-12 wp-block-paragraph\">A parent&#8217;s calamities?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-13 wp-block-paragraph\">Children dying in a hospital?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-14 wp-block-paragraph\">Old men rotting in prisons?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-15 wp-block-paragraph\">Or maybe death is a morning \u2014 flooding the bedroom with sunlight???<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-16 wp-block-paragraph\">*(2019)*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you describe death?&nbsp; With sad poems?&nbsp; Or maybe with voices screaming inside your head?&nbsp; Maybe death is joy?&nbsp; It frees us from ecstasies?&nbsp; Or maybe death is happiness \u2014 given by the gods \u2014 for future suffering? If death comes suddenly \u2014 your circle of friends will grow!&nbsp; Even those who hated you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-417","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}