{"id":1602,"date":"2018-01-08T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2018-01-07T15:17:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T22:17:28","slug":"ostracizing-the-blacksmith-by-daniel-ausema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1602","title":{"rendered":"Ostracizing the Blacksmith by Daniel Ausema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1604\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joseph_Wright_of_Derby._An_Iron_Forge_Viewed_from_Without._1773-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joseph_Wright_of_Derby._An_Iron_Forge_Viewed_from_Without._1773-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Joseph_Wright_of_Derby._An_Iron_Forge_Viewed_from_Without._1773.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The secrets of the forge come with a price.<br \/>\nThe power of flame, the mastery of metal,<br \/>\nwho can resist the bellow-blown mesmerism<br \/>\nof flames? Reds so intense they sublimate white,<br \/>\nthat purifying danger, beckoning, haunting.<\/p>\n<p>A tricky power, though, a sinister one.<br \/>\nWho can trust those who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve delved into<br \/>\nthe flames? Surely the bellows possess<br \/>\nan evil spirit, the horseshoes leak bad luck,<br \/>\nthe blades already reek of the lives they will take.<\/p>\n<p>A useful skill, but why take a chance? Keep those flames<br \/>\noutside, away from the homes of upright folk,<br \/>\nfar from our vulnerable ones. Sickness spreads<br \/>\nfrom those flames, an evil breath, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you smell it<br \/>\nin the smoke that oozes out of the chimney?<br \/>\nAnd those who speak the tongue of flame and anvil too.<br \/>\nPay them and flee back to the safety of our homes,<br \/>\nand let them come no nearer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Image:\u00c2\u00a0<span class=\"language en\" title=\"\"><b>English:<\/b><\/span> <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Joseph Wright of Derby\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Wright_of_Derby\">Joseph Wright of Derby<\/a>. An Iron Forge Viewed from Without. 1773. Oil on canvas 105 x 140 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secrets of the forge come with a price. The power of flame, the mastery of metal, who can resist the bellow-blown mesmerism of flames? Reds so intense they sublimate white, that purifying danger, beckoning, haunting. A tricky power, though, a sinister one. Who can trust those who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve delved into the flames? Surely the bellows [&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-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","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=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}