{"id":2186,"date":"2014-07-20T14:46:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T21:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2015-05-25T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T21:35:57","slug":"temblor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2186","title":{"rendered":"Temblor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\" style=\"color: #666666;\">\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sit still during earthquakes,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">better to see what breaks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This shudder of Gaia<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">comes like an idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When things fall into place<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">we strive to embrace<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">their new arrangement.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hence our estrangement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thoughts tumble on their own.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Once they are thrown,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">dancing like dice, they roll<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">out of\u00a0our control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>A very Lucretian poem (or indeed Derridean), for those who care about such things. Its inspiration was a 4.8 whose epicenter was about twelve miles from the lodge we rented for the Fourth in the San Bernardino Mts., elev. approx. 5,100 ft.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"likebtn_container\" style=\"\"><!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN --><span class=\"likebtn-wrapper\"  data-identifier=\"post_2186\"  data-site_id=\"56b78e2ba4c688a2131dca0b\"  data-style=\"\"  data-unlike_allowed=\"\"  data-show_copyright=\"\"  data-item_url=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2186\"  data-item_title=\"Temblor\"  data-item_date=\"2014-07-20T14:46:19-07:00\"  data-engine=\"WordPress\"  data-plugin_v=\"2.6.59\"  data-prx=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=likebtn_prx\"  data-event_handler=\"likebtn_eh\" ><\/span><!-- LikeBtn.com END --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sit still during earthquakes, better to see what breaks. This shudder of Gaia comes like an idea. When things fall into place we strive to embrace their new arrangement. Hence our estrangement. Thoughts tumble on their own. Once they are thrown, dancing like dice, they roll out of\u00a0our control. *** A very Lucretian poem (or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2186\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Temblor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"likebtn_container\" style=\"\"><!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN --><span class=\"likebtn-wrapper\"  data-identifier=\"post_2186\"  data-site_id=\"56b78e2ba4c688a2131dca0b\"  data-style=\"\"  data-unlike_allowed=\"\"  data-show_copyright=\"\"  data-item_url=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2186\"  data-item_title=\"Temblor\"  data-item_date=\"2014-07-20T14:46:19-07:00\"  data-engine=\"WordPress\"  data-plugin_v=\"2.6.59\"  data-prx=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=likebtn_prx\"  data-event_handler=\"likebtn_eh\" ><\/span><!-- LikeBtn.com END --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[79,42],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-california","tag-stoicism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}