{"id":10657,"date":"2020-06-15T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10657"},"modified":"2020-06-14T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T00:40:00","slug":"the-library-of-whispers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10657","title":{"rendered":"The Library of Whispers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"953\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/954px-Long_Room_Interior_Trinity_College_Dublin_Ireland_-_Diliff.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10659\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/954px-Long_Room_Interior_Trinity_College_Dublin_Ireland_-_Diliff.jpg 953w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/954px-Long_Room_Interior_Trinity_College_Dublin_Ireland_-_Diliff-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/954px-Long_Room_Interior_Trinity_College_Dublin_Ireland_-_Diliff-768x580.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\" \/><figcaption>The Long Room of the Old Library at Trinity College, Dublin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Daniel Ausema<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><font face=\"Arial\">The architecture in the library of whispers\nholds onto every breath half spoken,\nrecords them in its own flourishes and whimsies.\nThe shelves hum with sighs and insinuations,\nand innuendos flutter among the rafters\n\nOn lonely days patrons\nfollow the wafting memory of a loved one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s words\namong the stacks, tracking its position\nby a decimal system built on scent.\nOnce found, the whisper expands, surrounds\nthe patron, the shelves, the world,\ngranting the aural bones for life to flesh out.\n\nOn tense days, officials come to track down\nscarcely-spoken sedition\nand clues to ancient crimes.\nOnly by luck do they find either\n\nThe gothic waterspouts outside\nspill their secrets only when it rains\nbut are said to hold the oldest\nand least understood of the library\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mysteries.<\/font><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Ausema The architecture in the library of whispers holds onto every breath half spoken, records them in its own flourishes and whimsies. The shelves hum with sighs and insinuations, and innuendos flutter among the rafters On lonely days patrons follow the wafting memory of a loved one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s words among the stacks, tracking its position [&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-10657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10657","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=10657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10664,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10657\/revisions\/10664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}