{"id":9245,"date":"2024-11-18T13:28:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T18:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=9245"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:30:28","slug":"one-last-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2024\/11\/18\/one-last-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Drink Up&#8221; and &#8220;To Have and To Hold&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Aubrey Sinclair, UTIMES Contributor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;<strong>Drink Up<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5b593771fd8ae96720d8ccffc6585033\">What evidence had e&#8217;er there been that life was solely good;<br>That humankind was so refined, and acts just like it should?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-620877fb4dfa11ac8f441c6eb2bcff3d\">The misty haze of younger days reveals the hidden truth:<br>From grave to birth, for what it\u2019s worth, is flavored like vermouth.<br>So mix it up with something grand and take it slow and steady,<br>And every sip of joy and pain you\u2019ll find you are quite ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e49d915ca29e5dafb083d71bd5bd8e4f\">So savor flavors all, life gives, until you\u2019ve lost your head;<br>For every lifeblood drinker knows that life will leave you dead!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;<strong>To Have and To Hold&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e46667dc7448f4d68787bf553dc9effb\">I keep staring at my hands<br>Wondering who they belong to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9ac00cf961d1ea846fe5a532228b76c6\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Aubrey Sinclair, UTIMES Contributor &#8220;Drink Up&#8220; What evidence had e&#8217;er there been that life was solely good;That humankind was so refined, and acts just like it should? The misty haze of younger days reveals the hidden truth:From grave to birth, for what it\u2019s worth, is flavored like vermouth.So mix it up with something grand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7374],"tags":[7383],"class_list":["post-9245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-poetry","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9251,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245\/revisions\/9251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}