{"id":1749,"date":"2018-07-02T08:24:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T15:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2018-06-30T16:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T23:33:57","slug":"divine-intervention-better-than-nothing-by-david-c-kopaska-merkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1749","title":{"rendered":"Divine Intervention: Better Than Nothing? by David C. Kopaska-Merkel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Trococite_A_Headless_Man_with_Eyes_on_His_Shoulders_A_Headless_Man_with_a_Face_on_His_Chest_A_Man..._-_Google_Art_Project-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" class=\"align left size-medium wp-image-1751\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Trococite_A_Headless_Man_with_Eyes_on_His_Shoulders_A_Headless_Man_with_a_Face_on_His_Chest_A_Man..._-_Google_Art_Project-205x300.jpg 205w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Trococite_A_Headless_Man_with_Eyes_on_His_Shoulders_A_Headless_Man_with_a_Face_on_His_Chest_A_Man..._-_Google_Art_Project-768x1122.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Trococite_A_Headless_Man_with_Eyes_on_His_Shoulders_A_Headless_Man_with_a_Face_on_His_Chest_A_Man..._-_Google_Art_Project-701x1024.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><br \/>\nI regret that I have delivered<br \/>\nonly this headless God,<br \/>\nstriding across the Downs,<br \/>\nand, erratically,<br \/>\noccasionally waving its arms,<br \/>\ncreating things that, frankly,<br \/>\nlook a bit odd\/useless,<br \/>\n(the God not being able to see its handiwork and all),<br \/>\nin any case,<br \/>\nI trust it will affright your enemies,<br \/>\nat least as much as your friends,<br \/>\nand do not much more harm<br \/>\nthan you have been doing to yourselves anyway.<\/p>\n<p>So, thanks for your request;<br \/>\nthis is all I can do for you at this time,<br \/>\nand in the <em>future<\/em>,<br \/>\nplease regard a fatted calf,<br \/>\nas the least you can do,<br \/>\nif you expect a helpful response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I regret that I have delivered only this headless God, striding across the Downs, and, erratically, occasionally waving its arms, creating things that, frankly, look a bit odd\/useless, (the God not being able to see its handiwork and all), in any case, I trust it will affright your enemies, at least as much as your [&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-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","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=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}