{"id":1671,"date":"2014-10-13T12:55:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2014-10-13T12:55:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T17:55:31","slug":"poem-his-hole-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/poem-his-hole-life\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: His Hole Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>His hole life<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>He refused to get carried away<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Keeping his emotions in check<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A promissory note<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Just enough to cover his pallbearers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A noteworthy life, one that is lived wholeheartedly, is not without passion. Life: it&#8217;s all in the risk.\u00a0 The point of life is not to arrive safely in your grave.\u00a0 As Helen Keller so aptly declared, &#8220;Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.&#8221;\u00a0 A life reserved is a life lost.\u00a0 We must loose our life in order to gain it!\u00a0 In my first short story as an adult (yet to be published) a character is recounted (after his disappearance and murder) as saying &#8220;he suspected that God had little interest in us being saved, and is infinitely more interested in us being gloriously well spent.&#8221;\u00a0 In the movie <em>Steel Magnolias<\/em>, the character Shelby says that &#8220;I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.&#8221; Her mother is giving her grief as she is newly pregnant and terminal.\u00a0 There is always room for another baby in the world; it&#8217;s the adults that make it crowded.\u00a0 In this life, may we all be newly pregnant, for we are all surely terminal.\u00a0 As we are all present in this awkward period between birth and death, may our soul be bared before our body buried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His hole life He refused to get carried away Keeping his emotions in check A promissory note Just enough to cover his pallbearers A noteworthy life, one that is lived wholeheartedly, is not without passion. Life: it&#8217;s all in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/poem-his-hole-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[435,385,65,431,359,454,494,658,94,491,260,53,531,529],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-character","tag-death","tag-god","tag-heart","tag-life","tag-murder","tag-passion","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-present","tag-risk","tag-short-poems","tag-soul","tag-time"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: His Hole Life | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! %<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"POEM: His Hole Life, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Character, Death, God, Heart, Life, Murder, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Present, Risk, Short Poems, Soul, Time Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! %\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/poem-his-hole-life\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/10\\\/13\\\/poem-his-hole-life\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/10\\\/13\\\/poem-his-hole-life\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"POEM: His Hole Life\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-10-13T17:55:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-10-13T17:55:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/10\\\/13\\\/poem-his-hole-life\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":227,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/23524eae4bc27be85d1cdc01bc6d380e\"},\"keywords\":[\"Character\",\"Death\",\"God\",\"Heart\",\"Life\",\"Murder\",\"Passion\",\"Poems\",\"Poetry\",\"Present\",\"Risk\",\"Short Poems\",\"Soul\",\"Time\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Poems\",\"Political and Philosophical Musings\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/10\\\/13\\\/poem-his-hole-life\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/10\\\/13\\\/poem-his-hole-life\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/10\\\/13\\\/poem-his-hole-life\\\/\",\"name\":\"POEM: His Hole Life | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! %\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-10-13T17:55:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-10-13T17:55:31+00:00\",\"description\":\"POEM: His Hole Life, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Character, Death, God, Heart, Life, Murder, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Present, Risk, Short Poems, Soul, Time Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! %\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/10\\\/13\\\/poem-his-hole-life\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/10\\\/13\\\/poem-his-hole-life\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/10\\\/13\\\/poem-his-hole-life\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Blog HOME\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Poems\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/poems\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"POEM: His Hole Life\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Political Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show!\",\"description\":\"Top Pun&#039;s Pun-filled Stuff, Satire, and Public Health Science\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/23524eae4bc27be85d1cdc01bc6d380e\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/23524eae4bc27be85d1cdc01bc6d380e\",\"name\":\"Top Pun\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f78057fc29c98405f1474e223d51149b962df4af36cea20bf4ccbb189f621bb7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f78057fc29c98405f1474e223d51149b962df4af36cea20bf4ccbb189f621bb7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f78057fc29c98405f1474e223d51149b962df4af36cea20bf4ccbb189f621bb7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Top Pun\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f78057fc29c98405f1474e223d51149b962df4af36cea20bf4ccbb189f621bb7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/TopPun.com\\\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"POEM: His Hole Life | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! %","description":"POEM: His Hole Life, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Character, Death, God, Heart, Life, Murder, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Present, Risk, Short Poems, Soul, Time Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! %","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/poem-his-hole-life\/","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/poem-his-hole-life\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/poem-his-hole-life\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"POEM: His Hole Life","datePublished":"2014-10-13T17:55:10+00:00","dateModified":"2014-10-13T17:55:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/poem-his-hole-life\/"},"wordCount":227,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/23524eae4bc27be85d1cdc01bc6d380e"},"keywords":["Character","Death","God","Heart","Life","Murder","Passion","Poems","Poetry","Present","Risk","Short Poems","Soul","Time"],"articleSection":["Poems","Political and Philosophical Musings"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/poem-his-hole-life\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/poem-his-hole-life\/","url":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/poem-his-hole-life\/","name":"POEM: His Hole Life | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! %","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2014-10-13T17:55:10+00:00","dateModified":"2014-10-13T17:55:31+00:00","description":"POEM: His Hole Life, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Character, Death, God, Heart, Life, Murder, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Present, Risk, Short Poems, Soul, Time Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! %","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/poem-his-hole-life\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/poem-his-hole-life\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/poem-his-hole-life\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Blog HOME","item":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Poems","item":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/category\/poems\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"POEM: His Hole Life"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/","name":"Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Political Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show!","description":"Top Pun&#039;s Pun-filled Stuff, Satire, and Public Health Science","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/23524eae4bc27be85d1cdc01bc6d380e"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/23524eae4bc27be85d1cdc01bc6d380e","name":"Top Pun","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f78057fc29c98405f1474e223d51149b962df4af36cea20bf4ccbb189f621bb7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f78057fc29c98405f1474e223d51149b962df4af36cea20bf4ccbb189f621bb7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f78057fc29c98405f1474e223d51149b962df4af36cea20bf4ccbb189f621bb7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Top Pun"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f78057fc29c98405f1474e223d51149b962df4af36cea20bf4ccbb189f621bb7?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/TopPun.com\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":""}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}