{"id":2228,"date":"2014-04-04T20:53:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T01:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2014-04-04T21:09:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T02:09:19","slug":"4-ink-blot-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2228","title":{"rendered":"4. Ink Blot Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beside me,<br \/>\na mother &amp; son<br \/>\nplay Scrabble<br \/>\nwhile she explains<br \/>\nthe minimum heat required<br \/>\nfor spontaneous combustion<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>we wander through metaphors<br \/>\nof Sleeping Beauty&#8217;s thorns<br \/>\nand burning hearts<br \/>\nhung on the walls<br \/>\nlike something trying<br \/>\nto be beautiful<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>a pilot<br \/>\nin a teacup<br \/>\ngreen leaves clinging<br \/>\nto the porcelain<br \/>\ncurves, telling<br \/>\nno one&#8217;s future<br \/>\nbut its own<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>thirst is a thing<br \/>\nwe cannot escape<br \/>\nthere is no blood<br \/>\nwithout water<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>one last sip,<br \/>\nsweeter than sin<br \/>\nbefore the lights<br \/>\ngo out<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; T.H.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links &amp; Things:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For your further enjoyment, the master himself, Jack Kerouac, reading &#8220;American Haiku&#8221;:<br \/>\n<iframe width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xJdxJ5llh5A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beside me, a mother &amp; son play Scrabble while she explains the minimum heat required for spontaneous combustion &#8212; we wander through metaphors of Sleeping Beauty&#8217;s thorns and burning hearts hung on the walls like something trying to be beautiful &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2228\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[891,1],"tags":[906,896,907],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}