{"id":14316,"date":"2012-12-26T10:05:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T15:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2012\/12\/26\/14316.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:04:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:04:59","slug":"the-bitter-elixir-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2012\/12\/26\/the-bitter-elixir-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bitter Elixir of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So much that YHB just doesn&#8217;t feel like writing about.\n<p>The thing about the massacre in Newtown is that I don&#8217;t have anything to say about it, and haven&#8217;t had anything to say about it, and yet feel that I should say something about it.\n<P>Fortunately, Colin McEnroe&#8212;who is generally better at wild humor rather than impassioned pleading&#8212;wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/opinion\/hc-op-mcenroe-so-that-1223-20121221,0,5527899.column\">something<\/a> worth repeating:\n<blockquote><p>If there&#8217;s an elixir, some potion we can drink, it&#8217;s almost certainly love. Right? Love is the only possible bright sparkling rope bridge we can clutch as we stutter-step through the dark universe.<p>What a joke. Our only good piece of equipment is love, the thing we fail at so often. We&#8217;ve been talking all week about weapons, but our only sure-fire weapon against chaos and nothingness is love.<p>Do you keep it oiled and cleaned? Is it right close at hand, so you can grab it and brandish it? Are you packing it right now?<\/blockquote>\n<P>Happy Boxing Day, Gentle Readers all. Keep your love close at hand.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger is still crying at odd moments in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16743,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions\/16743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}