{"id":1162,"date":"2008-02-22T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2008\/02\/22\/the-caliphae\/"},"modified":"2010-04-06T21:25:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T05:25:22","slug":"the-caliphae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2008\/02\/22\/the-caliphae\/","title":{"rendered":"The Caliphae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should you happen, on your journey through the desert, to find an oasis that is not merely a pool but a ring, it is important that you do not drink from it; nor should you step in its water, or inside the border it describes.  Such places are sacred and dangerous.  They are the rings of the caliphae.<\/p>\n<p>These people come from a time before memory, inasmuch as they abide by human time at all.  Those they favor stumble drunk from paradise, centuries gone; those they hate never stumble out at all.<\/p>\n<p>They are not winged.  But their tiny carpets fly.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should you happen, on your journey through the desert, to find an oasis that is not merely a pool but a ring, it is important that you do not drink from it; nor should you step in its water, or inside the border it describes. Such places are sacred and dangerous. They are the rings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162"}],"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=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4144,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}