{"id":1858,"date":"2015-05-12T09:04:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T16:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?page_id=1858"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:23:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:23:58","slug":"insomnia-at-forty-below","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/insomnia-at-forty-below\/","title":{"rendered":"Insomnia at Forty Below"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After tossing and turning I cloak up<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and step into the other larger room<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> outside, where frangible branches, glassy<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> garage and garbage cans have been chisled<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> from the brittle substance of algid air.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> I take the crusted foot path towards the light<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> bulb inadvertently left on. Its fragile<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> filament now projects a sallow cone<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> across the desolation of the yard.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Only boot crunch stays a mute implosion<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> of fir boughs and snow and the curtain swirls<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> of the aurora above, inertia\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">with a smell<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">of its own. My senses seize on<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">this scene<br \/>\nsustained by sound from emptiness.<\/span><\/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>After tossing and turning I cloak up and step into the other larger room outside, where frangible branches, glassy garage and garbage cans have been chisled from the brittle substance of algid air. I take the crusted foot path towards the light bulb inadvertently left on. Its fragile filament now projects a sallow cone across &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/insomnia-at-forty-below\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Insomnia at Forty Below&#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-1858","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1858","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=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5180,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1858\/revisions\/5180"}],"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=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}