{"id":1129,"date":"2024-08-25T16:17:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T16:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2024-08-25T16:17:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T16:17:37","slug":"lost-in-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/25\/lost-in-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem99.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-554\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem99.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem99-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem99-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When as a child you look into the world<br>the magic of reality is there.<br>The world is fluid,<br>boundaries \u2013 weak,<br>cause and effect \u2013 unclear and remote\u2026<br>The world is full of patterns to discover,<br>it&#8217;s varied and exciting to behold,<br>but also frightening\u2026<br>and you begin<br>the job of organizing your impressions<br>in surfaces and colours,<br>when collected,<br>they can define the things;<br>you give them names,<br>the names are then collected once again<br>and through another level of abstraction<br>form into language &#8211;<br>so much more useful<br>than spots and lines,<br>but so much more rigid &#8211;<br>the magic&#8217;s almost gone\u2026<br>You look again,<br>look carefully &#8211;<br>it&#8217;s bleeding through the edges,<br>it&#8217;s seeping in through places of confusion,<br>creating chaos,<br>giving you the option<br>to see new things,<br>to name them, change the rules,<br>expand the language<br>and the world we live in\u2026<br>The spiral turns again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When as a child you look into the worldthe magic of reality is there.The world is fluid,boundaries \u2013 weak,cause and effect \u2013 unclear and remote\u2026The world is full of patterns to discover,it&#8217;s varied and exciting to behold,but also frightening\u2026and you beginthe job of organizing your impressionsin surfaces and colours,when collected,they can define the things;you give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[136,100,17,23,135,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}