{"id":1295,"date":"2024-08-29T16:48:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T16:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2024-08-29T16:48:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T16:48:12","slug":"its-a-strange-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/29\/its-a-strange-world\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a strange world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"670\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem182.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-551\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem182.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem182-300x251.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem182-768x643.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a strange world,<br>made of echoing emptiness<br>pulling itself together,<br>like Baron Munchhausen<br>pulling himself out of the swamp by his hair.<br>You cavort through it,<br>creating it as you go,<br>a cartoon character<br>picking up tracks from behind<br>and laying them in front<br>for your train to keep going;<br>an oblivious demiurge<br>sensing the world into being.<br>Every time you make a handstand &#8211;<br>you stand on the edge of the precipice.<br>Every time you laugh &#8211;<br>you laugh in the face of death.<br>It fills me with awe,<br>and joy,<br>and terror,<br>and utter amazement<br>at the strangest thing of all &#8211;<br>your ability to see this world as rock-solid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a strange world,made of echoing emptinesspulling itself together,like Baron Munchhausenpulling himself out of the swamp by his hair.You cavort through it,creating it as you go,a cartoon characterpicking up tracks from behindand laying them in frontfor your train to keep going;an oblivious demiurgesensing the world into being.Every time you make a handstand &#8211;you stand on [&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":[18,23,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295"}],"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=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}