{"id":30662,"date":"2022-05-10T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/a-poem-to-remind-you-that-being-elon-musk-is-probably-a-pretty-lonely-exist#id31795"},"modified":"2022-05-10T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T16:40:00","slug":"a-poem-to-remind-you-that-being-elon-musk-is-probably-a-pretty-lonely-thing-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/a-poem-to-remind-you-that-being-elon-musk-is-probably-a-pretty-lonely-thing-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"A poem to remind you that being Elon Musk is probably a pretty lonely thing to be."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least that&#39;s what we thought when we read it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/there-absolutely-nothing-lonelier\">&#8220;There Is Absolutely Nothing Lonelier,&#8221;<\/a> by Matthew Rohrer, whose <em>A Hummock in the Malookas <\/em>was selected by Mary Oliver for the 1994 National Poetry Series. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There is absolutely nothing lonelier<br \/>\nthan the little Mars rover<br \/>\nnever shutting down, digging up<br \/>\nrocks, so far away from Bond street<br \/>\nin a light rain. I wonder<br \/>\nif he makes little beeps? If so<br \/>\nhe is lonelier still. He fires a laser<br \/>\ninto the dust. He coughs. A shiny<br \/>\nthing in the sand turns out to be his.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/a-poem-to-remind-you-that-being-elon-musk-is-probably-a-pretty-lonely-exist\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least that&#8217;s what we thought when we read it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/there-absolutely-nothing-lonelier\">&#8220;There Is Absolutely Nothing Lonelier,&#8221;<\/a> by Matthew Rohrer, whose <em>A Hummock in the Malookas <\/em>was selected by Mary Oliver for the 1994 National Poetry Series. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There is absolutely nothing lonelier<br \/>\nthan the little Mars rover<br \/>\nnever shutting down, digging up<br \/>\nrocks, so far away from Bond street<br \/>\nin a light rain. I wonder<br \/>\nif he makes little beeps? If so<br \/>\nhe is lonelier still. He fires a laser<br \/>\ninto the dust. He coughs. A shiny<br \/>\nthing in the sand turns out to be his.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/a-poem-to-remind-you-that-being-elon-musk-is-probably-a-pretty-lonely-exist\">View Post ?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30663,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30662\/revisions\/30663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}