{"id":4473,"date":"2010-07-28T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/?p=4473"},"modified":"2010-07-27T21:33:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T05:33:41","slug":"verlaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2010\/07\/28\/verlaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Verlaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a bravo, the pitfalls of a tychistic view of the universe are many.  No matter how polished your blade or your reputation, you could die betrayed by a loose flagstone or a stumbling thrust.  And that&#8217;s just if you fight without flourish, without scrambling along trestles or snatching axes off the wall; without the whole point.<\/p>\n<p>The downside to a deterministic view, conversely, is simple:  the grim mathematics of the duel.<\/p>\n<p>Verlaine will take the former, thanks.  She whets her lucky coin on the same stone as her rapier.  On a soft surface, she can make it land on edge.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a bravo, the pitfalls of a tychistic view of the universe are many. No matter how polished your blade or your reputation, you could die betrayed by a loose flagstone or a stumbling thrust. And that&#8217;s just if you fight without flourish, without scrambling along trestles or snatching axes off the wall; without the [&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":[2469],"class_list":["post-4473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-verlaine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473"}],"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=4473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4474,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473\/revisions\/4474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}