{"id":5671,"date":"2025-05-15T21:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T19:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2025-05-15T21:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T19:04:17","slug":"apocalyptia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/2025\/05\/apocalyptia\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalyptia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Author:<\/strong> MW<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four horsemen astride their mounts walk gently on<br>tarmac roads, that cage the noble old tenements<br>their crumbling faces and dirtied windows silent<br>long since, emptied tram lines, strange witnesses<br>to the funeral march.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Long dead trees line the avenues the horsemen thought<br>to triumph down, their work like Roman generals<br>bringing swathes of the wretched to heel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Like those they were not to find, they must instead<br>wander empty cities, pick between barren fields<br>their vain search for souls, like so many<br>failed harvests, and blighted crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>After the dismal party who came<br>not to inherit the earth, buried in the soil<br>and nesting in the tree-corpses lay in wait<br>mushrooms, bees and worms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Long after the horsemen left, and put their folly down,<br>strange new flowers grew, with sunlight for their crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: MW Four horsemen astride their mounts walk gently ontarmac roads, that cage the noble old tenementstheir crumbling faces and dirtied windows silentlong since, emptied tram lines, strange witnessesto the funeral march. Long dead trees line the avenues the horsemen thoughtto triumph down, their work like Roman generalsbringing swathes of the wretched to heel. Like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002436,"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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[36],"class_list":{"0":"post-5671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-2025-spring","7":"tag-poetry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671","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\/1002436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5672,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions\/5672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}