{"id":1019680,"date":"2020-05-02T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/1019680\/"},"modified":"2020-05-02T15:00:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T15:00:32","slug":"dark-souls-the-firelink-shrine-bonfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/1019680\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Souls &#8211; The Firelink Shrine Bonfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Dark Souls - The Firelink Shrine Bonfire\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gg626me8mxA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8220;If you require rest, now is the time. That is, after all, what the bonfire is for.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe atmosphere of Dark Souls parallels that of life&#8217;s perfectly: horrendous here, yet beautiful there. Thus, I took to writing a poem on what I hear the bonfire whisper to me as I rest beside its flame.<\/p>\n<p>The Bonfire<\/p>\n<p>Thou art chosen, yet thy choice remains<br \/>\nTo save thy losses or gamble thy gains,<br \/>\nFor in these lands that brim with death,<br \/>\nNone shall guard thy hearth nor breath.<\/p>\n<p>Hast thou fondness of thy days\u2019 past,<br \/>\nOr hath a horror fueled thy wrath?<br \/>\nIndeed, our toils sow many a seed<br \/>\nDeeply in soils that smile and weep.<\/p>\n<p>Thy kin of undead are wary and frail<br \/>\nSuch that rubble be far more hale.<br \/>\nPray, which purpose windeth thy sail?<br \/>\nPray, which fate weaveth thy tale?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, save thy resolve for paths ahead<br \/>\nLest sanity truly abandon thy head.<br \/>\nIf thou return from lands ne\u2019er tamed,<br \/>\nSeek me anew in a warmth e\u2019er flamed.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Dan Virgoreo on 4.29.2020<\/p>\n<p>I also made a 10-hour version of this audio:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dark Souls - The Firelink Shrine Bonfire | Extended for 10 Hours\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SQj0kT_X6D4?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you require rest, now is the time. That is, after all, what the bonfire is for.&#8221; The atmospher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1019681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[36,5974,15148,2507,2502,212,203,10952,118949,19001,356017,356016,84796,78,134705,49577,215,34073,15,122190,2503,1673,3004,83056],"class_list":{"0":"post-1019680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rpg","8":"tag-gaming","9":"tag-ambience","10":"tag-audio","11":"tag-bonfire","12":"tag-dark","13":"tag-dark-souls","14":"tag-dark-souls-remastered","15":"tag-extended","16":"tag-firelink","17":"tag-firelink-shrine","18":"tag-firelink-shrine-music","19":"tag-firelink-shrine-song","20":"tag-instrumental","21":"tag-music","22":"tag-peaceful","23":"tag-relaxing","24":"tag-remastered","25":"tag-rest","26":"tag-rpg","27":"tag-shrine","28":"tag-souls","29":"tag-soundtrack","30":"tag-theme","31":"tag-visual"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1019681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}