{"id":1037,"date":"2018-12-19T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2018-12-18T16:11:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:11:25","slug":"finding-happiness-by-eugenie-bouquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/2018\/12\/finding-happiness-by-eugenie-bouquet\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Finding Happiness&#8221; by Eug\u00e9nie Bouquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cFinding Happiness\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>After the Myth of Sisyphus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pushing,<br \/>\nRestless to climb,<br \/>\nDoomed to absurdity,<br \/>\nTo toil at an ungrateful task,<br \/>\nBefore having to watch it all,<br \/>\nHer struggles and her pains<br \/>\nReduced in an instant<br \/>\nTo nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Alone,<br \/>\nDown again she goes.<br \/>\nThe men who pass by mock her,<br \/>\nClaiming she is being punished for her arrogance.<br \/>\nBit off more than she can chew, serves her right!<br \/>\nMaybe&#8230; But then why would she go back<br \/>\nTo her lifelong companion<br \/>\nWillingly?<\/p>\n<p>And again,<br \/>\nRefusing to defect.<br \/>\nOr maybe striving to satisfy her spite<br \/>\nIn the sharp unkindness of the stone, in its strain on her body?<br \/>\nWhen with an empty gaze, she follows its roll down the hill,<br \/>\nDoes she like the racket it makes?<br \/>\nRelishing in the din perhaps as<br \/>\nIn music?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, by the Gods,<br \/>\nThe greedy ache to comfort her!<br \/>\nTo let her rest under my shadowy wings,<br \/>\nAnd stop the everlasting curse from destroying her.<br \/>\nBut no, nothing shall be done. For on the fool\u2019s face, I recognize it. Under the sun\u2019s gash and the blast\u2019s whipping, as she descends for the&#8230;<br \/>\nHowmanyeth time? There lies, unaltered<br \/>\nYet flickering,<br \/>\nA smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFinding Happiness\u201d After the Myth of Sisyphus Pushing, Restless to climb, Doomed to absurdity, To toil at an ungrateful task, Before having to watch it all, Her struggles and her pains Reduced in an instant To nothing. Alone, Down again she goes. The men who pass by mock her, Claiming she is being punished for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[36],"class_list":{"0":"post-1037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-winter18","7":"tag-poetry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}