{"id":143,"date":"2005-03-25T16:15:50","date_gmt":"2005-03-25T23:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=143"},"modified":"2005-07-30T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-30T20:15:00","slug":"siduris-tavern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/siduris-tavern\/","title":{"rendered":"siduri&#8217;s tavern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/074326164X\/ref=reg_hu-wl_item-added\/002-0564797-1320856?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;v=glance\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Mitchell&#8217;s translation of Gilgamesh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still engaged with elements of <i>Gilgamesh<\/i>, his frantic, futile search<\/p>\n<p>Encounter with Siduri, the veiled tavern keeper at the edge of the world<\/p>\n<p>She climbs on her roof when she sees him coming<\/p>\n<p>Is she the Rampart? Refreshment? or just a stop along the way <\/p>\n<p>I dreamt of an innkeeper in March 2002 &#8211; maybe Siduri<\/p>\n<p>Intersecting the journey<br \/>\nStatic and stubborn<\/p>\n<p>Naturally suspicious<br \/>\nand possibly stingy<\/p>\n<p>Antagonistic to the traveler<br \/>\nyet in need of his visit<\/p>\n<p>At length she helps him<br \/>\ntake the next step forward<\/p>\n<p>Advice to &#8220;go home&#8221; is<br \/>\nalways premature<\/p>\n<p>Siduri the wet blanket<\/p>\n<p>He does it eventually<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Mitchell&#8217;s translation of Gilgamesh Still engaged with elements of Gilgamesh, his frantic, futile search Encounter with Siduri, the veiled tavern keeper at the edge of the world She climbs on her roof when&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}