{"id":1056,"date":"2016-04-04T11:27:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T18:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2016-03-26T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T18:54:53","slug":"monuments-of-frost-by-daniel-ausema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"Monuments of Frost by Daniel Ausema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Planetary_Analogue-1024x293.jpg\" alt=\"Planetary_Analogue\" width=\"1024\" height=\"293\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1057\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Planetary_Analogue-1024x293.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Planetary_Analogue-300x86.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Planetary_Analogue-768x220.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Planetary_Analogue.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nOn the slowly spinning planet Kroz,<br \/>\nthere is a plain where<br \/>\nfrost builds structures layer by layer<br \/>\nover many years,<br \/>\nin the dark of a decade-long night.<br \/>\nAs dawn creeps closer,<br \/>\nthe frost forms towers,<br \/>\ndelicate minarets,<br \/>\nbuttresses that hold up no walls,<br \/>\ncities of the finest fragility.<\/p>\n<p>The people of Kroz pay no attention<br \/>\nto the ice.<br \/>\nThose who live in mine towns<br \/>\nplod through their work, day or night<br \/>\nunchanging.<br \/>\nThe bulk of the people,<br \/>\nnomadic dawn chasers,<br \/>\nshuttling between the slow morning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s edge<br \/>\nand necessary locations<br \/>\ndeeper into night or day,<br \/>\navoid the plain<br \/>\nin their peregrinations.<br \/>\nSo structures grow unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>In all the planet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s literature<br \/>\nthere is no mention of the frost by moonlight,<br \/>\nno songs of sweethearts meeting there,<br \/>\nno legends or tragedies<br \/>\nof the people who once lived within<br \/>\nor the fate of those who dared to sleep inside.<\/p>\n<p>As dawn nears the plain<br \/>\neverything changes.<br \/>\nThe planet stops.<br \/>\nEveryone gathers outside<br \/>\nthe circle of frost buildings;<br \/>\nno one speaks,<br \/>\nno one records a thing,<br \/>\nno images of any medium.<br \/>\nno songs to recall the sight;<br \/>\nbut with breaths held,<br \/>\nall watch the flash of an instant<br \/>\nas the sun turns the frost<br \/>\nto matrices of light.<\/p>\n<p>Then dawn has come, the buildings gone.<br \/>\nThey return to their lives,<br \/>\nand only the fleeting thoughts<br \/>\nof ephemeral art remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the slowly spinning planet Kroz, there is a plain where frost builds structures layer by layer over many years, in the dark of a decade-long night. As dawn creeps closer, the frost forms towers, delicate minarets, buttresses that hold up no walls, cities of the finest fragility. The people of Kroz pay no attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}