{"id":29,"date":"2026-09-24T17:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2026-10-14T20:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:46:29","slug":"an-elegy-about-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"An Elegy About Time (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tributes to Tim Lake toss themselves about my worried mind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">as I regard a simple salient thing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">you broke my heart two seconds ago<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your smile crinkles your eyes like choco-tin wrappers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and I smile back at you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">fixing myself to leave you here<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in your own stagnant corridor of time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You were very beautiful to me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but like the astonishing blonde Charlotte<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have to let you go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tributes to Tim Lake toss themselves about my worried mind as I regard a simple salient thing you broke my heart two seconds ago Your smile crinkles your eyes like choco-tin wrappers and I smile back at you fixing myself to leave you here in your own stagnant corridor of time You were very beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,27,23,26,9,25,4,5,42],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-about-time","tag-crush","tag-elegy","tag-heartbreak","tag-love","tag-movie","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-writer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileysavatgy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}