{"id":1480,"date":"2017-08-14T08:43:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2017-08-13T10:50:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T17:50:48","slug":"1480","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"The King Crab by Josh Pearce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1484\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1091px-Van_Gogh_-_Krebs_auf_dem_R\u00c3\u00bccken_liegend-300x247.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The King Crab ruled from high<br \/>\nin his sandcastle<br \/>\nuntil one day, troubled,<br \/>\nshod his seahorse<br \/>\nwith horseshoe crabs<br \/>\nand, with a brace of pistol shrimp,<br \/>\nrode away from his kingdom<br \/>\ninto the enchanted<br \/>\nkelp forest<\/p>\n<p>where he stumbled on<br \/>\na crabapple hermit crab apple crab<br \/>\nwho had visions and told tales<br \/>\nof a higher land<br \/>\nof warrior mantis monks<br \/>\nrescuing pretty maids<br \/>\nfrom dragonflies,<\/p>\n<p>of sailfish sailors<br \/>\nwho discover that the shore<br \/>\nis just the sleep crust on the ocean<br \/>\nwhich is, itself, an eye.<\/p>\n<p>The hermit said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Your ornamental<br \/>\ngardens, livestock, patterns<br \/>\nin the clouds,<\/p>\n<p>we attack the world with a putty knife,<br \/>\nforming it in our own image,<br \/>\nat least into the mold<br \/>\nof our brains.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The ocean, blinking, eroded<br \/>\nthe sandcastle away like every metaphor<br \/>\nunder tides of indifference.<\/p>\n<h6>illustration, A Crab Lying on his Back, by Van Gogh<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The King Crab ruled from high in his sandcastle until one day, troubled, shod his seahorse with horseshoe crabs and, with a brace of pistol shrimp, rode away from his kingdom into the enchanted kelp forest where he stumbled on a crabapple hermit crab apple crab who had visions and told tales of a higher [&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-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","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=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}