{"id":4089,"date":"2023-09-10T00:28:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T04:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/the-half-life-of-hope-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-09-10T00:28:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T04:28:21","slug":"the-half-life-of-hope-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/the-half-life-of-hope-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Half-Life of Hope \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"posts\">\n<h2\/>\n<h3 class=\"byline\">By Maria Popova<\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry_content\">\n<p>After breaking out of timidity with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/2023\/08\/20\/spell-against-indifference\/\">\u201cSpell Against Indifference,\u201d<\/a> an offering of another poem \u2014 this one inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/13\/science\/magpies-birds-nests.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a lovely piece of science news<\/a> that touched me with its sonorous existential echoes. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;The Half-Life of Hope&quot; by Maria Popova\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YmFnX-kUMgs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>THE HALF-LIFE OF HOPE<\/strong><br \/><em>by Maria Popova<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walking beneath the concrete canopy<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of Manhattan<br \/>I find myself thinking about<br \/>Charles B. Kaufmann<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who<br \/>just after the end<br \/>of the Second World War<br \/>invented bird spikes<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who<br \/>thought it a fine idea<br \/>to fang the roofs<br \/>of hospitals and banks,<br \/>to weaponize the libraries<br \/>to keep the thing with feathers<br \/>from perching on our homes<br \/>to keep the angels<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from alighting.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty bird generations later<br \/>atop a maple tree<br \/>outside a hospital in Belgium<br \/>a magpie has heisted<br \/>a thousand metal spikes<br \/>to make of them<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a nest<br \/>to sing from it<br \/>the requiem<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of the saved.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maria Popova After breaking out of timidity with \u201cSpell Against Indifference,\u201d an offering of another poem \u2014 this one inspired by a lovely piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-purpose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}