{"id":73,"date":"2004-06-10T16:58:50","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T23:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=73"},"modified":"2004-06-10T16:58:50","modified_gmt":"2004-06-10T23:58:50","slug":"a-black-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/a-black-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"a black stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skankypossum.com\/pouch\/archives\/000158.html\" target=\"_blank\">Black Stone 42<\/a> by Dale Smith (Skanky Possum): <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The dishes are clean though, and I steal these moments to write, free of the day&#8217;s mundane gravity, its irritating beauty and sweetness, and hard ugly edges. To be in Art without that tugging need to perform or create something suitable to others. I&#8217;m free of it\u2014in prose&#8217;s rate and measure. The dead god can&#8217;t reach me here from his cold, spirit-dead world. Language moves by image, an instantaneous transmission of these perceptions. The small nothing moments pass through us here forming inner lives. They are beyond us. Not personal, but stand out in that wild unconscious surge to become translated new. To tend these passages of quiet pleasure or routine after-dinner digesting. And under it you-know-what holds firm\u2014obsidian, inert coil.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I like:<br \/>\nThe household aspect.<br \/>\nThe acknowledgement of the relaxation of prose.<br \/>\nThe talk of language moving by image.<br \/>\nThe mysterious black stone image.<br \/>\nThe multitudinous small paragraphs. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite a work of art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Black Stone 42 by Dale Smith (Skanky Possum): &#8220;The dishes are clean though, and I steal these moments to write, free of the day&#8217;s mundane gravity, its irritating beauty and sweetness, and hard&#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-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","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=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}