{"id":8,"date":"2007-04-19T02:55:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T07:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2007\/04\/19\/the-end-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T14:46:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T22:46:11","slug":"the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2007\/04\/19\/the-end-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ve come to a beach.  The end of the world crouches on her heels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Draw a man,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t draw,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All humans can draw.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He shivers at her implication and limns a stick figure in the wet sand with his shoe.  Sputtering aurorae trace it, green and purple; that startles him, despite everything, and he jumps back.<\/p>\n<p>The end of the world spreads her hand and erases it.  &#8220;What did that look like?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another dimension,&#8221; he says sarcastically, trying to cover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes,&#8221; she murmurs.  &#8220;Every abstract, every approach to the ideal, is a place where realities overlap.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ve come to a beach. The end of the world crouches on her heels. &#8220;Draw a man,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I can&#8217;t draw,&#8221; he says. &#8220;All humans can draw.&#8221; He shivers at her implication and limns a stick figure in the wet sand with his shoe. Sputtering aurorae trace it, green and purple; that startles him, [&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-8","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\/8"}],"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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}