{"id":10715,"date":"2020-09-14T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10715"},"modified":"2020-09-13T18:49:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T01:49:56","slug":"dicing-with-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10715","title":{"rendered":"Dicing With the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"493\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Devils_at_an_aerial_toll_house.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10716\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Devils_at_an_aerial_toll_house.jpg 512w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Devils_at_an_aerial_toll_house-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>Devils at an aerial toll house, Rila monastery fresco.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mary Soon Lee<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><font face=\"Arial\">\nGod's a gambler, a gamer,\nrolling her quantum dice,\n\ndrawn to drama, the odds,\ndueling with the devil.\n\nBet the dinosaurs. Lost.\nPromised herself she'd quit.\n\nWhereupon her plans progressed\nwith perfect predictability.\n\nMillennia upon millennia\nof interminable tedium\n\nuntil she fell to temptation\ndown in hell's red halls.\n\nWagered mermaids, mammoths,\nCamelot, Atlantis, Babylon.\n\nAnd she's down there still,\noffering chips to chance,\n\nLincoln and Gandhi long gone,\nin need of higher stakes,\n\nweighing what to risk:\nwar? plague? apocalypse?\n\n\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Soon Lee God&#8217;s a gambler, a gamer, rolling her quantum dice, drawn to drama, the odds, dueling with the devil. Bet the dinosaurs. Lost. Promised herself she&#8217;d quit. Whereupon her plans progressed with perfect predictability. Millennia upon millennia of interminable tedium until she fell to temptation down in hell&#8217;s red halls. Wagered mermaids, mammoths, [&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-10715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715","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=10715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10717,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715\/revisions\/10717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}