{"id":16217,"date":"2026-04-01T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=16217"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:51:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:51:30","slug":"poem-by-john-grey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=16217","title":{"rendered":"poem by John Grey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Pessimist\u2019s Summer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The trees are fully-formed,<\/p>\n<p>roots below,<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>green above,<\/p>\n<p>and with just enough trunk<\/p>\n<p>to keep them separated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To those in their shade,<\/p>\n<p>this is how it always is.<\/p>\n<p>But I see the downside.<\/p>\n<p>To me, summer is only fooling itself.<\/p>\n<p>Fall is where the truth lies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when the dying begins,<\/p>\n<p>the shedding, denuding,<\/p>\n<p>until every oak and elm<\/p>\n<p>stands naked<\/p>\n<p>just as the bitter wind picks up<\/p>\n<p>and winter falls from the sky.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve learned not to enjoy transience.<\/p>\n<p>Everything that could end<\/p>\n<p>is over already.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pessimist\u2019s Summer &nbsp; The trees are fully-formed, roots below,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1872,77],"tags":[1873,1123,1393],"class_list":["post-16217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-89-90","category-english","tag-egophobia-89-90","tag-english","tag-john-grey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-4dz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16218,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217\/revisions\/16218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}