{"id":10808,"date":"2021-09-06T10:50:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T17:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10808"},"modified":"2021-09-06T10:50:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T17:50:21","slug":"san-francisco-hotel-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10808","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Hotel Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Quant_Muenchener.Fasching.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"441\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Quant_Muenchener.Fasching.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10809\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Quant_Muenchener.Fasching.jpg 512w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Quant_Muenchener.Fasching-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fasching\">Fasching<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in Munich by Fritz Quant, 1921<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jenny Blackford\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><font face=\"Arial\">\nEvery night, the hotel\non the fracture zone\nhosts a cleansing ritual\nwith wine and music.\n \nGuests assume it's a mere\ncommercial ploy,\nforgetting all they knew\nof ceremony, old\n\nand new. Deluded fools,\nthey gulp free wine\nand laugh. Staff crack jokes\neven when guests fail to tip.\n\nNo one wonders why.\nStill, the ritual seems to work.\nNightmares here\naren't so much worse\n\nthan elsewhere.\nBut even while musicians \nmagic distracting sounds\n(don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look at the weird lump\n\nthere under the carpet!)\neven while Buddha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\nbrass head gazes down\nwith that archaic smile\n\n(what is he thinking?)\nthe mound beneath the rug\npersists baleful,\narcane.\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny Blackford\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Every night, the hotel on the fracture zone hosts a cleansing ritual with wine and music. Guests assume it&#8217;s a mere commercial ploy, forgetting all they knew of ceremony, old and new. Deluded fools, they gulp free wine and laugh. Staff crack jokes even when guests fail to tip. No one wonders why. [&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-10808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808","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=10808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10810,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808\/revisions\/10810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}