{"id":89,"date":"2004-08-18T11:46:09","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=89"},"modified":"2004-08-18T11:46:09","modified_gmt":"2004-08-18T18:46:09","slug":"capture-no-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/capture-no-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"capture &#8211; no capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8\/8\/04<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20040813_birddetail.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/loudgirl\/archives\/images\/20040813_birddetail.jpg\" width=\"137\" height=\"145\" border=\"0\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20040813_turtledetail.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/loudgirl\/archives\/images\/20040813_turtledetail.jpg\" width=\"205\" height=\"125\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Birds and beasts, captured onscreen, free in the land. People in the townships, disparities, the effort of justice. I react badly to didacticism &#8211; didactyly? the imperative address. Do this, do that, why should I? And yes, no one should speak English as a first language and what we learn in school is hopeless as a joke in the grass. <\/p>\n<p>Learning. I learned I don&#8217;t just &#8220;tag along.&#8221; I can decide, I learned to steer the canoe, I don&#8217;t have to switch sides with the paddle. I&#8217;m learning to adjust to the sagging flesh on the inner thigh above the knee, to the sight of myself in pictures when I frighten myself, how to take care of long hair, and how to take a break. A lot of learning for one short life. <\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50px\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>I still want to be the Favored One. <\/p>\n<p>In a world as infinite as the water droplets rainblowing over Victoria Falls. <\/p>\n<p>In a world as infinite as the water world of lake birds.<\/td>\n<td width=\"50px\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8\/8\/04 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Birds and beasts, captured onscreen, free in the land. People in the townships, disparities, the effort of justice. I react badly to didacticism &#8211; didactyly? the imperative address. Do this, do that,&#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-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}