{"id":1329,"date":"2024-08-29T17:32:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2024-08-29T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:32:13","slug":"almost-but-not-entirely-unlike-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/29\/almost-but-not-entirely-unlike-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost, but not entirely, unlike fish."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem199.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-365\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem199.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem199-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem199-768x534.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Underground is deep in places.<br>Deep under.<br>Buried in space and time.<br>Connecting the romantic awe of the past,<br>when the technology was new<br>and the belief in its potential &#8211; unrestrained,<br>with the pragmatic helplessness of the present,<br>when we take a deep breath<br>before plunging into the unknown.<br>No longer an exciting miracle,<br>mysterious yet knowable,<br>but a complex system,<br>poorly understood and therefore dangerous.<br><br>You have to enter,<br>to give yourself up to the incomprehensible,<br>to the frightening and uncontrollable,<br>on a daily basis.<br>Just to get from A to B.<br>That&#8217;s how we travel in the close,<br>crowded space of the city.<br>That&#8217;s how we travel in time,<br>progressively more complicated.<br>Taking a deep breath<br>before plunging into a crowd<br>like water.<br><br>As you go under,<br>you can no longer hear the rain.<br>The water does not transmit sound,<br>it exerts pressure.<br>Comforting and stifling, it holds you tight.<br>Deep under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underground is deep in places.Deep under.Buried in space and time.Connecting the romantic awe of the past,when the technology was newand the belief in its potential &#8211; unrestrained,with the pragmatic helplessness of the present,when we take a deep breathbefore plunging into the unknown.No longer an exciting miracle,mysterious yet knowable,but a complex system,poorly understood and therefore dangerous. [&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":[34,292,290,23,293,26,289,291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329"}],"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=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}