{"id":1609,"date":"2008-04-03T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2008-04-03T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T15:04:05","slug":"300803-ilinx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1609","title":{"rendered":"30|08:03 Ilinx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stand a hundred feet above the sand,<\/p>\n<div>lifeline cinched about my waist,\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>feathers quivering at my fingertips,<\/div>\n<div>the towering mast beneath my feet\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>raising me up beside\u00c2\u00a0the deified dead.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The sunset horizon stretches out behind me,<\/div>\n<div>casting we Totonac into sharp relief,<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">voladores<\/span> silhouetted against the Mexican twilight.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I put my head down and stretch out my arms,<\/div>\n<div>weaving my destiny between my toes,<\/div>\n<div>and step off into my downward spiral,<\/div>\n<div>a thunderbird or a phoenix.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">(Inspired by a passage in Robert Callois&#8217; &#8220;The Classification of Games.&#8221;)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stand a hundred feet above the sand, lifeline cinched about my waist,\u00c2\u00a0 feathers quivering at my fingertips, the towering mast beneath my feet\u00c2\u00a0 raising me up beside\u00c2\u00a0the deified dead. The sunset horizon stretches out behind me, casting we Totonac into sharp relief, voladores silhouetted against the Mexican twilight. I put my head down and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-pX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}