{"id":1381,"date":"2017-04-10T08:41:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T15:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2017-04-01T10:46:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T17:46:36","slug":"the-rules-of-death-by-jennifer-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1381","title":{"rendered":"The Rules of Death by Jennifer Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lilien_corpse-1024x278.jpg\" alt=\"Lilien_corpse\" width=\"818\" height=\"222\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1383\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lilien_corpse-1024x278.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lilien_corpse-300x81.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lilien_corpse-768x208.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lilien_corpse.jpg 1890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><br \/>\nPossession is nine tenths of death:<br \/>\na nine-pointed pattern laid on a black marble floor,<br \/>\na nine-clawed dragon breathing ash,<br \/>\na nine-forked bolt of lightning burning down cities.<br \/>\nWhat slips in, when the last sigh slides<br \/>\nbetween chapped lips, when the last twitch<br \/>\nstills, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what ghosts carry with them<br \/>\ninto shadow, or what carries them where gods can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t reach.<\/p>\n<p>Closure, for the lucky, shuts the door on haunting.<br \/>\nWhat grace exists beyond the grave lies in having the strength<br \/>\nto drift beyond the past, or even the present.<br \/>\nThe dead, in endless future tense, loop in and out<br \/>\nof our sight when the quantum entanglement of their dreams<br \/>\nbrushes ours. Ghosts trade memory for a map out,<br \/>\ntrade passion for a path, and what we call back<br \/>\nbegins at the ragged point where fate cut the thread loose.<\/p>\n<p>Nice and tidy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possession is nine tenths of death: a nine-pointed pattern laid on a black marble floor, a nine-clawed dragon breathing ash, a nine-forked bolt of lightning burning down cities. What slips in, when the last sigh slides between chapped lips, when the last twitch stills, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what ghosts carry with them into shadow, or what carries [&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-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","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=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}