{"id":474,"date":"2024-10-16T09:04:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T13:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/?p=474"},"modified":"2024-10-16T09:07:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T13:07:56","slug":"anais-mitchell-epic-ii-from-hadestown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/archives\/474","title":{"rendered":"Ana\u00efs Mitchell, &#8220;Epic II&#8221; from Hadestown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Epic II&#8221;<br \/>\nby\u00a0Ana\u00efs Mitchell, from\u00a0<em>Hadestown\u00a0<\/em>(2019)<\/p>\n<p>[ORPHEUS]<br \/>\nKing of silver, king of gold<br \/>\nAnd everything glittering under the ground<br \/>\nHades is king of oil and coal<br \/>\nAnd the riches that flow where those rivers are found<br \/>\nBut for half of the year with Persephone gone<br \/>\nHis loneliness moves in him, crude and black<br \/>\nHe thinks of his wife in the arms of the sun<br \/>\nAnd jealousy fuels him and feeds him and fills him<br \/>\nWith doubt that she&#8217;ll ever come<br \/>\nDread that she&#8217;ll never come<br \/>\nDoubt that his lover will ever come back<\/p>\n<p>King of mortar, king of bricks<br \/>\nThe River Styx is a river of stones<br \/>\nAnd Hades lays them high and thick<br \/>\nWith a million hands that are not his own<br \/>\nWith a million hands, he builds a wall<br \/>\nAround all of the riches he digs from the earth<br \/>\nThe pickaxe flashes, the hammer falls<br \/>\nAnd crashing and pounding<br \/>\nHis rivers surround him<br \/>\nAnd drown out the sound of the song he once heard<br \/>\nLa-la-la-la-la-la-la<br \/>\nLa-la-la-la-la-la-la<br \/>\nLa-la-la-la-la-la-la<br \/>\nLa-la-la-la-la-la<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Epic II&#8221; by\u00a0Ana\u00efs Mitchell, from\u00a0Hadestown\u00a0(2019) [ORPHEUS] King of silver, king of gold And everything glittering under the ground Hades is king of oil and coal And the riches that flow where those rivers are found But for half of the year with Persephone gone His loneliness moves in him, crude and black He thinks of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}