{"id":852,"date":"2014-03-31T09:08:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2014-03-08T17:23:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T00:23:24","slug":"whale-fail-by-mary-alexandra-agner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"Whale Fail, by Mary Alexandra Agner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_854\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Whale_Tile_Mural.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-854\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-854\" alt=\"Whale Tile Mural by Makena Tile Murals\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Whale_Tile_Mural-229x300.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Whale_Tile_Mural-229x300.jpg 229w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Whale_Tile_Mural.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whale Tile Mural by Makena Tile Murals<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The world ends like the whale falls<br \/>\nto the ocean floor: slowly, unencumbered<br \/>\nby life, supported by water, sinking<br \/>\ninto the strata of scavengers<br \/>\nuntil hunger and fear turns everyone<br \/>\nto hagfish and sharks, teeth and odors,<br \/>\nopportunity and opportuned.<\/p>\n<p>In the fin-frenzy, there is no future.<br \/>\nThe stomach rules all.<br \/>\nBut once the blubber is gone<br \/>\nthe bones are so white<br \/>\nthey dazzle even the sunlight<br \/>\nsilting the eggs of mackerel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world ends like the whale falls to the ocean floor: slowly, unencumbered by life, supported by water, sinking into the strata of scavengers until hunger and fear turns everyone to hagfish and sharks, teeth and odors, opportunity and opportuned. In the fin-frenzy, there is no future. The stomach rules all. But once the blubber [&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-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","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=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}