{"id":44,"date":"2004-02-23T23:31:16","date_gmt":"2004-02-24T06:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=44"},"modified":"2004-02-23T23:31:16","modified_gmt":"2004-02-24T06:31:16","slug":"very-contrary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/very-contrary\/","title":{"rendered":"very contrary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on a spreadsheet all day. I was a thousand ants. Meanwhile, there&#8217;s nothing to figure out. <\/p>\n<p>I want the Dark Mother. The expression of negativity and destruction, the extreme expression. Why do I love her so much? <\/p>\n<p><i>I&#8217;m not giving You up<br \/>\nNo matter how You glare at me. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s all this teasing and tricks, Mother,<br \/>\nWhen I go to get what&#8217;s mine?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I pulled out Ramprasad Sen &#8211; &#8220;Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair.&#8221; I feel distant from the fervency, found it a little funny, outrageous, devotional, used-to-be familiar. But I was not really all that touched, not ready to go get what&#8217;s mine. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m due for a fast from reading. Or a fast from the many thousand things. <\/p>\n<p>She was throwing her jewelry around tonight. Smile-moon and beauty-mark Venus (?) in the early night sky. <\/p>\n<p><i>Prasad says: Your games, Mother,<br \/>\nAre mysteries. You make and break.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve broken me in this life.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on a spreadsheet all day. I was a thousand ants. Meanwhile, there&#8217;s nothing to figure out. I want the Dark Mother. The expression of negativity and destruction, the extreme expression. Why do&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}