{"id":20385,"date":"2017-07-29T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=20385"},"modified":"2017-07-12T16:20:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T20:20:58","slug":"20385","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/29\/20385\/","title":{"rendered":"The Abstruse Language of Vaticinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The poor herbalist could not know that with these suspicions, even though later disproved, he was confirming Firefly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prediction when he heard the dispatch from the observatory and interpreted it as announcing an invasion of bats. Not even the seer himself understands his words \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and I say this from my own experience. No science is capable of ordering the abstruse language of vaticinations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Venturing in from the yard, up to the wrought-iron window, and then into the room itself in small wary leaps, looking all ways at once, a tomeguin finch came to peck at the fruit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Severo Sarduy, <em>Firefly<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poor herbalist could not know that with these suspicions, even though later disproved, he was confirming Firefly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prediction when he heard the dispatch from the observatory and interpreted it as announcing an invasion of bats. Not even the seer himself understands his words \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and I say this from my own experience. No science [&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":[341,1322],"class_list":["post-20385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-beautiful-prose","tag-sentences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20385","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=20385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20385"}],"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! -->