{"id":1653,"date":"2018-02-26T08:08:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T15:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2018-02-25T12:11:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T19:11:15","slug":"bemju-by-robert-borski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"Bemju by Robert Borski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1654\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Chinese_snuff_bottle_19th_century_glass_bottle_with_jadeite_stopper_Honolulu_Museum_of_Art-140x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Chinese_snuff_bottle_19th_century_glass_bottle_with_jadeite_stopper_Honolulu_Museum_of_Art-140x300.jpg 140w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Chinese_snuff_bottle_19th_century_glass_bottle_with_jadeite_stopper_Honolulu_Museum_of_Art-478x1024.jpg 478w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Chinese_snuff_bottle_19th_century_glass_bottle_with_jadeite_stopper_Honolulu_Museum_of_Art.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even though when rebottled for sale,<br \/>\nthe insanely-expensive draughts are small,<br \/>\nthe original container is said to have<br \/>\nbeen huge, magnifying, behind the moat<br \/>\nof glass, scales the size of platters,<br \/>\na cold Palomar-like eye, and fire-blackened<br \/>\nteeth.<\/p>\n<p>As for the properties it is alleged to confer?<br \/>\nLike most folk medicine that involves<br \/>\nthe consumption of animal parts, even<br \/>\nin this age of germline editing and born-again<br \/>\ndragons, the effect is rumored to be largely<br \/>\npsychosomatic:<\/p>\n<p>the inner wings that sprout may still allow<br \/>\nyou to believe you can fly, but any knights<br \/>\nyou attempt to ingest are far more likely<br \/>\nto induce heartburn than gastronomic<br \/>\nsatiety &#8212; there still being no evidence<br \/>\nat this point (or so saith our procurer,<br \/>\nflashing unicorn inlays) that drinking<br \/>\ndragon wine is suspected to be the cause<br \/>\nin at least three investigations<br \/>\nof spontaneous human combustion.<\/p>\n<h6>Chinese snuff bottle, 19th century, glass bottle with jadeite stopper, <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Honolulu Museum of Art\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Honolulu_Museum_of_Art\">Honolulu Museum of Art<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though when rebottled for sale, the insanely-expensive draughts are small, the original container is said to have been huge, magnifying, behind the moat of glass, scales the size of platters, a cold Palomar-like eye, and fire-blackened teeth. As for the properties it is alleged to confer? Like most folk medicine that involves the consumption [&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-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","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=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}