{"id":206,"date":"2006-07-17T06:19:09","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T11:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2006\/07\/17\/the-end-of-the-world-4\/"},"modified":"2009-06-23T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T04:59:00","slug":"the-end-of-the-world-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2006\/07\/17\/the-end-of-the-world-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

The end of the world looks like a girl, maybe seventeen, maybe nineteen, maybe he shouldn’t ask. Her lips make him think of Eartha Kitt.<\/p>\n

“Is your name Eartha?” he asks.<\/p>\n

“No,” she says.<\/p>\n

He flips papers, a little confused. “Okay,” he says, “you came with a monologue prepared, right?”<\/p>\n

“From Eliot,” she says, and puts her hands behind her:<\/p>\n

“Verdigris, peyote dreams,
\nIndia and rhyme
\nCarry claret honey trees
\nParalytic sighs;<\/p>\n

Close your eyes and swallow sand–“<\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“That’s not Eliot,” he interrupts.<\/p>\n

“It isn’t,” says the end of the world, “is it,” and now it’s her turn to look confused.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The end of the world looks like a girl, maybe seventeen, maybe nineteen, maybe he shouldn’t ask. Her lips make him think of Eartha Kitt. “Is your name Eartha?” he asks. “No,” she says. He flips papers, a little confused. “Okay,” he says, “you came with a monologue prepared, right?” “From Eliot,” she says, and […]<\/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":[1447,1448,2769],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-end-of-the-world","tag-eartha-kitt","tag-t-s-eliot","tag-the-end-of-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"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=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2747,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/2747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}