{"id":1743,"date":"2015-04-30T17:13:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T00:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?page_id=1743"},"modified":"2018-01-23T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:39:06","slug":"language-lesson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/language-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Russian she spoke<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">could have been Persian.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The sounds in her throat<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">she never had learned<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">as I would. She knew them\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">by heart not rote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I asked her to speak it<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">not out of science<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">but with the motive\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">to take wont and break it,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">with her compliance<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">to hear speech naked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Such is our blindness<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">tongues we&#8217;ve used,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">their forms of fineness<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">can never be heard.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We are amused\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">they ring so absurd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Was it because<br \/>\nher language was foreign<br \/>\nI saw through like gauze<br \/>\nthe customs we use,<br \/>\npast the decorum<br \/>\nto flesh and sinews?<\/p>\n<p>How could her tongue,<br \/>\nfully unknown,<br \/>\nbear me the message<br \/>\nI needn\u2019t possess<br \/>\nwords to undress<br \/>\nher in some room alone?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian she spoke could have been Persian. The sounds in her throat she never had learned as I would. She knew them\u00a0 by heart not rote. I asked her to speak it not out of science but with the motive\u00a0 to take wont and break it, with her compliance to hear speech naked.\u00a0 Such &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/language-lesson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Language Lesson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3496,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1743","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3389,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1743\/revisions\/3389"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}