{"id":1466,"date":"2017-07-24T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2017-07-23T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T18:59:38","slug":"postcard-from-callisto-by-deborah-l-davitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1466","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from Callisto by Deborah L. Davitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1467\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lossy-page1-636px-Eso1615a.tif-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lossy-page1-636px-Eso1615a.tif-212x300.jpg 212w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lossy-page1-636px-Eso1615a.tif.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dug in under ice, rock,<br \/>\nwhere stars don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t twinkle,<br \/>\nbut remain hard, cold, distant dots.<\/p>\n<p>Look up: Io\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s belching sulfur again\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\ndroplets flung across the void,<br \/>\ncaught by unseen winds,<br \/>\nrain against the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Europa and Ganymede shoulder<br \/>\ninto view, fleeting across the face<br \/>\nof the monster that chains us all.<\/p>\n<p>Squint: you can just see auroras<br \/>\ndancing like ghosts, spirits, around<br \/>\nGanymede, as the king\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tongue,<br \/>\nradiation-laden, licks his fleeing favorite.<\/p>\n<p>His swollen red eye peers at us<br \/>\nas water-miner drones lift off,<br \/>\nreturning to ships waiting in higher orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Here, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re far from his leering gaze,<br \/>\nhis lecherous tongue, his groping gravity.<br \/>\nAnd yet, we never feel quite safe;<br \/>\nwe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trapped, like all his other lovers.<\/p>\n<h6>image by\u00c2\u00a0ESO\/M. Kornmesser, downloaded from\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/eso1615a\/<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dug in under ice, rock, where stars don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t twinkle, but remain hard, cold, distant dots. Look up: Io\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s belching sulfur again\u00e2\u20ac\u201d droplets flung across the void, caught by unseen winds, rain against the surface. Europa and Ganymede shoulder into view, fleeting across the face of the monster that chains us all. Squint: you can just [&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-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","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=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}