{"id":4181,"date":"2023-01-18T01:34:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T01:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2023-01-19T02:40:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T02:40:10","slug":"now-and-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/now-and-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Now and Then"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4183 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Now-and-Then.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Now-and-Then.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Now-and-Then-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Now-and-Then-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Now-and-Then-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Now-and-Then-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1600\/900;\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Now and Then<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Phil Huffy<\/p>\n<p>It is no longer the same sadness,<br \/>\nthat sharp, hopeless sting,<br \/>\nso unremitting,<br \/>\nfor much has faded from the mind,<\/p>\n<p>and even those vivid dreams<br \/>\nare now most mercifully calm,<br \/>\nreviewing past events<br \/>\nonly indirectly, if at all.<\/p>\n<p>Our favorite tune can be heard safely,<br \/>\nwith absence of consequence,<br \/>\nwhile familiar haunts have lost their curse<br \/>\nand can be driven by without effect.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nThere need be no more walks<br \/>\npast the old apartment steps<br \/>\nto wonder if the new residents<br \/>\ncan perceive any traces of our sighs,<\/p>\n<p>though it is likely that such echoes<br \/>\nhave long since faded to the point<br \/>\nwhere only the former occupants<br \/>\nwould be likely to notice them.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Huffy writes early and often at his kitchen table, casting a wide net as to form and substance. His work has appeared in dozens of journals and anthologies, including <em>Schuylkill Valley Review, Eunoia, Pangolin, Orchards Poetry, The Lyric<\/em>, and several haiku publications. He has published three collections of his poems and is proud to have recorded one of them (Magic Words) as an audiobook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Huffy writes early and often at his kitchen table, casting a wide net as to form and substance. His work has appeared in dozens of journals and anthologies, including Schuylkill Valley Review,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}