{"id":2070,"date":"2015-06-06T19:10:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T02:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?page_id=2070"},"modified":"2026-03-14T15:26:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:26:56","slug":"oracle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/oracle\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn at Delphi. Goat bells clustering in<br \/>\nthe air like fruit and the whir of doves in flight<br \/>\nas loud as bees\u2019 buzz in the dried-out shrubs.<br \/>\nSo much sensation, sans revelation.<br \/>\nTwo days later in Naupoli arak<br \/>\ndrew me through antic night then\u00a0into day.<br \/>\nPenitent, I threaded the sun\u2019s eye at noon,<br \/>\nstaggering dazzled up eight hundred worn<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: revert;\">steps through the shrill of cidada, squinting<br \/>\n<\/span>at light warped into waves broken over<br \/>\nbleached stone slabs. Nausea unparalleled!<br \/>\nYet I clutched at the notion I might someday strew<br \/>\nmy tidings, which would flourish like clumps<br \/>\nof weeds whose seeds have fallen into cracks.<\/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>Dawn at Delphi. Goat bells clustering in the air like fruit and the whir of doves in flight as loud as bees\u2019 buzz in the dried-out shrubs. So much sensation, sans revelation. Two days later in Naupoli arak drew me through antic night then\u00a0into day. Penitent, I threaded the sun\u2019s eye at noon, staggering dazzled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/oracle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oracle&#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-2070","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2070","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=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5274,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2070\/revisions\/5274"}],"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=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}