{"id":387,"date":"2009-11-21T22:11:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T03:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=387"},"modified":"2024-12-18T18:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T23:16:52","slug":"the-art-of-action-and-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2009\/11\/the-art-of-action-and-being\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Action and Being"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">In my desire to embrace the world,\nembrace for love, for safety,\nno, not for love \u2014 so chilling,\nfor safety, I conceive the world determinable,\nemploy science and social contracts,\nmorals and power,\nall for my well\u2013intentioned designs\n\nDo not go coming around bringing up the ghost of love\nto haunt my bones,\nto turn my castles in the air to dust.\nI\u2019d have to give up everything\nscience cannot calculate,\ncontracts cannot account for,\nmorals cannot heed,\npower cannot glory in its deeds,\nonly that I may look in your eyes\nand know you\n\nthe factory belts overflow untended\nthe stocks: lost opportunities\nmy work hours fly by\njust to gaze at you\n\nmy research and masterpieces\nring hollow\nand it is so important\nto do\nBah!\nyou,\ntormenting me\nto look upon you\nI howl,\nshiver like a child in my toddler shoes\n\nWith what crazy faith you do tempt me to my insanity,\nOh God, oh God,\nboohoo<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my desire to embrace the world, embrace for love, for safety, no, not for love \u2014 so chilling, for safety, I conceive the world determinable, employ science and social contracts, morals and power, all for my well\u2013intentioned designs Do not go coming around bringing up the ghost of love to haunt my bones, to [&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":[17],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-afloat-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","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=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3672,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}