{"id":342,"date":"2009-06-19T15:35:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T19:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2009-06-19T15:35:38","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T19:35:38","slug":"dawns-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Dawn&#8217;s End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Golden Spur,<\/em> comic novelist Dawn Powell&#8217;s last book, published in 1962, when Powell was 65:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;But you had so little time left, and it seemed as if you dared not stop running for a minute. You didn&#8217;t run to win the prize as you did in youth. Indeed your dimming eyes could not tell if you&#8217;d passed the goal or not. You went on running because in the end that was the only prize there was&#8211;to be alive, to be in the race.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Golden Spur, comic novelist Dawn Powell&#8217;s last book, published in 1962, when Powell was 65: &#8220;But you had so little time left, and it seemed as if you dared not stop running for a minute. You didn&#8217;t run to win the prize as you did in youth. Indeed your dimming eyes could not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}