{"id":15921,"date":"2016-06-02T13:36:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T18:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=15921"},"modified":"2016-07-01T09:49:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:49:15","slug":"random-thread-june-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=15921","title":{"rendered":"Random Thread: June 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wink-space-kaleidoscope.jpg\" alt=\"Child in giant kaleidoscope\" width=\"500\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Children, if you dare to think<br \/>\nOf the greatness, rareness, muchness<br \/>\nFewness of this precious only<br \/>\nEndless world in which you say<br \/>\nYou live, you think of things like this:<br \/>\nBlocks of slate enclosing dappled<br \/>\nRed and green, enclosing tawny<br \/>\nYellow nets, enclosing white<br \/>\nAnd black acres of dominoes,<br \/>\nWhere a neat brown paper parcel<br \/>\nTempts you to untie the string.<br \/>\nIn the parcel a small island,<br \/>\nOn the island a large tree,<br \/>\nOn the tree a husky fruit.<br \/>\nStrip the husk and pare the rind off:<br \/>\nIn the kernel you will see<br \/>\nBlocks of slate enclosed by dappled<br \/>\nRed and green, enclosed by tawny<br \/>\nYellow nets, enclosed by white<br \/>\nAnd black acres of dominoes,<br \/>\nWhere the same brown paper parcel \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nChildren, leave the string alone!<br \/>\nFor who dares undo the parcel<br \/>\nFinds himself at once inside it,<br \/>\nOn the island, in the fruit,<br \/>\nBlocks of slate about his head,<br \/>\nFinds himself enclosed by dappled<br \/>\nGreen and red, enclosed by yellow<br \/>\nTawny nets, enclosed by black<br \/>\nAnd white acres of dominoes,<br \/>\nWith the same brown paper parcel<br \/>\nStill untied upon his knee.<br \/>\nAnd, if he then should dare to think<br \/>\nOf the fewness, muchness, rareness,<br \/>\nGreatness of this endless only<br \/>\nPrecious world in which he says<br \/>\nhe lives \u00e2\u20ac\u201d he then unties the string.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Graves, &#8220;Warning to Children&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstuff","category-random-craziness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15921"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16093,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921\/revisions\/16093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}