{"id":18321,"date":"2016-01-18T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=18321"},"modified":"2016-01-18T07:57:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T12:57:39","slug":"observe-changes-in-the-flask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/18\/observe-changes-in-the-flask\/","title":{"rendered":"Observe Changes in the Flask"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>First: He should be discreet and silent, revealing to no one the result of his operations.<br \/>\nSecond: He should reside in an isolated house in an isolated position.<br \/>\nThird: He should choose his days and hours for labour with discretion.<br \/>\nFourth: He should have patience, diligence, and perseverance.<br \/>\nFifth: He should perform according to fixed rules.<br \/>\nSixth: He should only use vessels of glass or glazed earthenware.<br \/>\nSeventh: He should be sufficiently rich to bear the expenses of his art.<br \/>\nEighth: He should avoid having anything to do with princes and noblemen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Albertus Magnus on the qualities of the alchemist, quoted in Sean Martin&#8217;s <em>Alchemy and Alchemists<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First: He should be discreet and silent, revealing to no one the result of his operations. Second: He should reside in an isolated house in an isolated position. Third: He should choose his days and hours for labour with discretion. Fourth: He should have patience, diligence, and perseverance. Fifth: He should perform according to fixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2604,2605,2545],"class_list":["post-18321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-alchemy","tag-artistry","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->