{"id":1343,"date":"2024-08-30T15:29:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2024-08-30T15:29:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:29:13","slug":"philosophers-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/30\/philosophers-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosopher&#8217;s Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem206.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-431\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem206.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem206-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem206-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is not much point in stealing gold &#8211;<br>gold is a soft metal, not very good for tools or utensils.<br>It is given value by people who can shape it and make it talk.<br>I do steal shapes.<br>I hoard them in my library,<br>I pore over them, hunched, giggling, rubbing my hands together.<br>I line them up and recombine them<br>and when I hit a lucky combo<br>my giggle turns into a laugh.<br>That&#8217;s when I take the new shape out<br>and get you to look at it<br>and the light of your eyes<br>turns the base metal into gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is not much point in stealing gold &#8211;gold is a soft metal, not very good for tools or utensils.It is given value by people who can shape it and make it talk.I do steal shapes.I hoard them in my library,I pore over them, hunched, giggling, rubbing my hands together.I line them up and recombine [&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":[18,308,307,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343"}],"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=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}