{"id":2277,"date":"2012-11-07T15:35:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T22:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2012-11-09T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T15:11:00","slug":"the-left-wing-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/the-left-wing-of-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"the left wing of darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.<\/p>\n<p> ~~Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness, page 52<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a novel reader anymore, but cleaning out my bookcase and feeling more unsettled than usual, I thought it might be relaxing to escape, a chapter at a time, into one of Ursula LeGuin&#8217;s novels. <\/p>\n<p>In one of those fiendish moments of almost giddy serendipity, the above was the last line I read before turning out the lights at the beginning of my failed attempt to sleep through the election returns. <\/p>\n<p>Tossing and turning, I finally got out of bed at 1:30 am or so, when the sound of Romney&#8217;s voice finally forced me downstairs to see what was happening. Lo and behold, a concession speech. <\/p>\n<p>The uncertainty isn&#8217;t gone by any means. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. ~~Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness, page 52 I&#8217;m not a novel reader anymore, but cleaning&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}