{"id":1127,"date":"2008-11-10T16:49:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T21:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2024-12-18T21:06:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T02:06:38","slug":"refraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2008\/11\/refraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Refraction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">A hard scientific concept to explain\n light\nIt knows the fastest route\n ahead of time\nand bends as it transitions,\n veers course\njoyously following some cosmic efficiency\ndepending on the medium in which\n it finds itself\nI throw the stick far down the creek\n thinking to guide Lexi into a long swim\nwith natural instinct she trots\n lengthwise down the watery beach\n and, in happenstance, selects\n the most efficient entrance to dive into the deep\nThen there were those long minutes she spent\n at the edge of the pool\nDeterminedly awaiting the stick\n to drift to her<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hard scientific concept to explain light It knows the fastest route ahead of time and bends as it transitions, veers course joyously following some cosmic efficiency depending on the medium in which it finds itself I throw the stick far down the creek thinking to guide Lexi into a long swim with natural instinct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25,29],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-flying-pigs-book","tag-lexi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3680,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions\/3680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}