{"id":1917,"date":"2019-03-04T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T03:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2019-03-02T14:38:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T21:38:07","slug":"the-ruined-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1917","title":{"rendered":"The Ruined Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/640px-Bookworm_Grub_and_the_damage_done.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1918\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/640px-Bookworm_Grub_and_the_damage_done.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/640px-Bookworm_Grub_and_the_damage_done-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bruce Boston<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Wind from the blast<br>ripped half the roof<br>off the venerable<br>building and broke<br>most of its windows.<br>Shelves have fallen.<br>Others are leaning.<br>Books have toppled<br>to the floor, spilling<br>their cargo of words<br>to an indifferent sky.<br>\u00c2\u00a0<br>Snow, rain, and wind<br>have entered freely,<br>and the dampness<br>has invaded all.<br>Even deep in the<br>stacks a faint stench<br>of mildew prevails.<br>Wild mushrooms<br>sprout in the dark.<br>\u00c2\u00a0<br>Librarians have long<br>since fled this shattered<br>ruin in the shattered city.<br>There are no students<br>hunched over their studies,<br>no old men leafing through<br>newspapers from cities<br>where they once lived,<br>no bored wives searching<br>out romance novels.<br>\u00c2\u00a0<br>Yet the deserted library<br>still has many patrons.<br>Creatures small and pale<br>come in great numbers<br>to tunnel through one<br>volume after another,<br>devouring one letter<br>at a time until they<br>have the last word.<br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Boston Wind from the blastripped half the roofoff the venerablebuilding and brokemost of its windows.Shelves have fallen.Others are leaning.Books have toppledto the floor, spillingtheir cargo of wordsto an indifferent sky.\u00c2\u00a0Snow, rain, and windhave entered freely,and the dampnesshas invaded all.Even deep in thestacks a faint stenchof mildew prevails.Wild mushroomssprout in the dark.\u00c2\u00a0Librarians have longsince fled [&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-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","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=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}