{"id":4156,"date":"2010-04-14T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2010-04-14T20:27:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T04:27:26","slug":"arrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2010\/04\/14\/arrete\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrete"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"This one goes out to Cornelia and Flavia, and the raeda, which in fossa est.\">\n<p>&#8220;Ecce picturo,&#8221; says Arrete, flicking her bored wand at the window.  The view changes to a rainforest, a desert, the Pentagon, Mars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why you can&#8217;t use real Latin,&#8221; grumbles Verona.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wouldn&#8217;t work,&#8221; says Arrete.  &#8220;Obvs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Verona deliberately gives her a slow, bovine blink.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Words are just the focus.  Pseudolatin has connotations of privilege and archaic mystery to most English-speakers.  It puts your brain in the right place for magic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could just as easily be Pseudoswahili?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But magic&#8217;s more than the sum of your cultural baggage!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Arrete gives her a slow, bovine blink.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ecce picturo,&#8221; says Arrete, flicking her bored wand at the window. The view changes to a rainforest, a desert, the Pentagon, Mars. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why you can&#8217;t use real Latin,&#8221; grumbles Verona. &#8220;It wouldn&#8217;t work,&#8221; says Arrete. &#8220;Obvs.&#8221; Verona deliberately gives her a slow, bovine blink. &#8220;Words are just the focus. Pseudolatin has connotations [&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":[2380,2381],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arrete","tag-verona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156"}],"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=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4159,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}