{"id":1011,"date":"2007-07-24T04:00:28","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2007\/07\/24\/the-end-of-the-world-5\/"},"modified":"2009-07-23T08:02:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T16:02:34","slug":"the-end-of-the-world-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2007\/07\/24\/the-end-of-the-world-5\/","title":{"rendered":"the end of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waves soften the smeared-out traces of his figure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s only one place safe from it,&#8221; says the end of the world, stepping out onto a wave.  &#8220;Where nothing can really be inscribed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s absurd!&#8221; he snaps, trying to follow.  He doesn&#8217;t have the trick of it:  he splashes where she skates.  &#8220;There are plenty of symbols in the sea.  White whales, albatrosses&#8211;for heaven&#8217;s sake, look what you&#8217;re doing&#8211;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not the water,&#8221; she says, &#8220;although it&#8217;s better than the sand.&#8221;  The sea floor drops out beneath him; he treads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then where?&#8221; he gasps.<\/p>\n<p>Rising, the great beast swallows them both.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waves soften the smeared-out traces of his figure. &#8220;There&#8217;s only one place safe from it,&#8221; says the end of the world, stepping out onto a wave. &#8220;Where nothing can really be inscribed.&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s absurd!&#8221; he snaps, trying to follow. He doesn&#8217;t have the trick of it: he splashes where she skates. &#8220;There are plenty of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2769],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-end-of-the-world","tag-the-end-of-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}