{"id":921,"date":"2003-08-21T14:48:47","date_gmt":"2003-08-21T19:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2003\/08\/21\/the-straits-of-messina\/"},"modified":"2009-02-24T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T19:44:42","slug":"the-straits-of-messina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2003\/08\/21\/the-straits-of-messina\/","title":{"rendered":"The Straits of Messina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She doesn&#8217;t hate sailors, not particularly.  She&#8217;d like to talk to one of them, to have a friend.  Maybe she&#8217;d show him her cave; she&#8217;d cover the floor with rushes, rub his sunburned shoulders, lick salt from his chest.<\/p>\n<p>She does get lonely.  It&#8217;s hard not to, when you can&#8217;t leave your little rock, and your only friend is a vomiting whirlpool.<\/p>\n<p>She doesn&#8217;t deserve this; her only crime was looking good to a god, one day at the bath.  And now she eats sailors, despairing, sullen, always hungry.  Dogs&#8217; heads aren&#8217;t much good at catching fish.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She doesn&#8217;t hate sailors, not particularly. She&#8217;d like to talk to one of them, to have a friend. Maybe she&#8217;d show him her cave; she&#8217;d cover the floor with rushes, rub his sunburned shoulders, lick salt from his chest. She does get lonely. It&#8217;s hard not to, when you can&#8217;t leave your little rock, and [&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-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921"}],"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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}