{"id":2321,"date":"2026-06-15T15:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:28:33","slug":"cordoba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2026\/06\/15\/cordoba\/","title":{"rendered":"Cordoba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"792\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/264_2026_0302_105719_Cordoba_Small-1024x792.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/264_2026_0302_105719_Cordoba_Small-1024x792.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/264_2026_0302_105719_Cordoba_Small-300x232.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/264_2026_0302_105719_Cordoba_Small-768x594.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/264_2026_0302_105719_Cordoba_Small.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A mass of yellow stone<br>floating in the blue<br>of the clear, brilliant sky above<br>and the turbulent Guadalquivir below &#8211;<br>its enormous bulk<br>made weightless by the context.<br>Ottoman Cordoba was a univer-city,<br>a unverse with a small &#8220;u&#8221;.<br>A mess of cultures,<br>sweaty cross-fertilization &#8211;<br>exciting,<br>faintly indecent,<br>infinitly productive.<br>Not the golden mean of Aristotle,<br>not the measured path of restraint &#8211;<br>contorted co-mingling,<br>intertwined but not melded.<br>The way of Socrates &#8211;<br>clear contradiction that is growth<br>made stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mass of yellow stonefloating in the blueof the clear, brilliant sky aboveand the turbulent Guadalquivir below &#8211;its enormous bulkmade weightless by the context.Ottoman Cordoba was a univer-city,a unverse with a small &#8220;u&#8221;.A mess of cultures,sweaty cross-fertilization &#8211;exciting,faintly indecent,infinitly productive.Not the golden mean of Aristotle,not the measured path of restraint &#8211;contorted co-mingling,intertwined but not melded.The [&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":[34,55,20,19,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321"}],"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=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}