{"id":227,"date":"2022-06-24T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2022-06-24T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T16:56:35","slug":"the-vault-of-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"The Vault of Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I carried you to your grave<br>out St. Catherine\u2019s door and down the steps,<br>under the light of the silent litany,<br>from the hearse across<br>the frozen ruts and crusted snow<br>to your grave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You were smaller in death than in life;<br>light, except for the pinewood coffin.<br>Before you died, at the wedding<br>I held your hand and had the terrible<br>realization that I weighed more.<br>I wanted to cry, then, at the lightness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I carried you to your grave<br>with my coat unzipped and snow in my shoes.<br>I looked hard and clear up<br>at the raven disappearing into a frosted pine<br>and down at the covered valley<br>plain \u2013 certain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vicki-schofield-zVS5rJN0Fho-unsplash-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vicki-schofield-zVS5rJN0Fho-unsplash-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vicki-schofield-zVS5rJN0Fho-unsplash-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vicki-schofield-zVS5rJN0Fho-unsplash-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vicki-schofield-zVS5rJN0Fho-unsplash-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vicki-schofield-zVS5rJN0Fho-unsplash-1-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vicki-schofield-zVS5rJN0Fho-unsplash-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I carried you to your graveout St. Catherine\u2019s door and down the steps,under the light of the silent litany,from the hearse acrossthe frozen ruts and crusted snowto your grave. You were smaller in death than in life;light, except for the pinewood coffin.Before you died, at the weddingI held your hand and had the terriblerealization that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-published"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}