{"id":1107,"date":"2004-12-15T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/12\/15\/oh-how-dashing\/"},"modified":"2004-12-15T00:22:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T00:22:00","slug":"oh-how-dashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/12\/15\/oh-how-dashing\/","title":{"rendered":"oh how dashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-1398477,00.html\">A man in a long leather coat smashed into a display case and stole the scrying crystal ball of John Dee<\/a>, spiritual hack to the queen back in the 16th century. He took off with its parchment instruction manual as well. I think it&#8217;s amusing that someone would smash the display case and take a runner&nbsp;with them. That they were dressed so is like the cherry on top. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johndee.org\/\">Dee<\/a> was an odd an interesting fellow who got famous creating a language with which he would talk to angels. He&#8217;s&nbsp;worth looking into if you&#8217;re interested in historical wierdos. Sort of a con-man wizard type, very authorative. He had quite the interesting position in court back in the day, the official philosopher occultist.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently there&#8217;s been quite the string off such olde world incidents in the news. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/am\/publish\/whats_up_dec13_2004.html?13122004\">Meteor showers<\/a>, sightings of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4019295.stm\">apparitions<\/a>. Certain parts of the world seem to be going through an almost&nbsp;eldritch string of headlines. I quite like it.<\/p>\n<p>In a beautiful moment of personal mythology synchronicity,&nbsp;<lj user=\"mercury_realm\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;has&nbsp;made a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/mercury_realm\/86897.html\">stunning print of Spring Heel Jack<\/a>, the perfect figure for&nbsp;this particular tapestry of&nbsp;related inspirations, the seed around which everything crystalizes into a tangible idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapersblock.com\/detour\/collectible_toys\/\">Oh, the kinky possiblities of nostalgia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/darklotus\/doornaildorothy.html\">Sounds like<\/a> the perfect time to introduce the world to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zombiepinups.com\/\">zombie pin-up<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilepcmag.com\/#RIAA\">defeat the RIAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in a long leather coat smashed into a display case and stole the scrying crystal ball of John Dee, spiritual hack to the queen back in the 16th century. He took off with its parchment instruction manual as well. I think it&#8217;s amusing that someone would smash the display case and take a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/12\/15\/oh-how-dashing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;oh how dashing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}