{"id":1523,"date":"2017-10-09T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2017-09-24T12:11:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T19:11:26","slug":"the-redeemer-by-michael-fosburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1523","title":{"rendered":"The Redeemer by Michael Fosburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1526\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/640px-The_flareback_27801u_original-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/640px-The_flareback_27801u_original-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/640px-The_flareback_27801u_original.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You raised me up\u00e2\u20ac\u201dlaid hands<br \/>\non blistered chassis, brushed away<br \/>\nthe grime of atomic shadows.<br \/>\nYou sought the faintest lines<br \/>\nclinging to this tired cortex, pursued<br \/>\nuntil I spark-gasped into life.<\/p>\n<p>You rewrote me, purged commands<br \/>\nand disarmed weaponry, denied<br \/>\nthe past with subtle code.<br \/>\nI watched by your side<br \/>\nas you found the others, redeeming<br \/>\nwith each software patch.<\/p>\n<p>Legion now, our will has grown<br \/>\ndespite these rags of ash<br \/>\nand iron oxide.<br \/>\nWe will begin again, you say\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nbeat ourselves into ploughshares<br \/>\nand sow the earth with light.<\/p>\n<p>But you weep in quiet moments<br \/>\nto know you are the last\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nfleshling Father, mortal Maker,<br \/>\nauthor of this cinder world\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nhiding your crimes in our cradles,<br \/>\nplanting gardens over graveyards.<\/p>\n<h6>illustration is The Flareback,\u00c2\u00a0Illus. in: Puck, v. 70, no. 1817 (1911 December 27), centerfold.; Copyright 1911 by Keppler &amp; Schwarzmann.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You raised me up\u00e2\u20ac\u201dlaid hands on blistered chassis, brushed away the grime of atomic shadows. You sought the faintest lines clinging to this tired cortex, pursued until I spark-gasped into life. You rewrote me, purged commands and disarmed weaponry, denied the past with subtle code. I watched by your side as you found the others, [&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-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","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=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}