{"id":1499,"date":"2005-07-04T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/07\/04\/starlight-on-fire\/"},"modified":"2005-07-04T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-04T13:10:00","slug":"starlight-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/07\/04\/starlight-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"starlight on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/23308615\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos16.flickr.com\/23308615_c38eb63632_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/23308615\/\">Communism, Hypnotism, &amp; the Beatles<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/foxtongue\/\">Foxtongue<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Running underneath every train of thought are rails spun entirely from unknown quantifiers. Perceptions as metal shining blind to the horizon. I find there&#8217;s an imaginary border between hypothesis and knowing, one I don&#8217;t know how to measure. My mind takes the substance there and fashions it into flowers that drop from my lips, the blessing curse of the youngest daughter, and I hold them up to light, examine the colours for clues, but I&#8217;m not always satisfied. I want to plunge my finger into the center of them and taste the idea pollen living there. It&#8217;s intimidating, this habit, like living with angels aiding my foot-step tongue or pre-determination haranguing me daily to hang in there when events turn too stressful. Occasionally, I am appalled by how much I take for granted, how much understanding of the world I assume. I used to be uncomfortable with the entire concept, that the unconscious flow moments of big-picture recognition that are sublimated inside me somewhere represent an axiomatic system of balance. Every day I expected to realize that the patterns were only hyperbole moments of tying moments together conveniently enough for belief to kick in, (there&#8217;s a word for it that William Gibson is fond of, but it escapes me at the moment), but every year has been proving me wrong. Over and over again I&#8217;ve been justified in my unwritten understanding of the underlying motivations in various aspects of inter-person relationships. It&#8217;s almost tiring. <\/p>\n<p>Certainly, it&#8217;s also been occurring to me that if a person walks around with enough self-confidence, people become willing to bend around them and so the same effect is achieved though through a different channel. This is, however, too irritating to consider. I tend to discount anything that regards my social circles in such low esteem however ego filled such a statement must seem. It&#8217;s sort of an automatic assumption that in spite of the fact that most of us are odd in some way, we have ourselves sorted to a healthy point, a mind-set place where outside requirements are nothing more than they should be and that validation comes as much from within as without.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communism, Hypnotism, &amp; the Beatles Originally uploaded by Foxtongue. Running underneath every train of thought are rails spun entirely from unknown quantifiers. Perceptions as metal shining blind to the horizon. I find there&#8217;s an imaginary border between hypothesis and knowing, one I don&#8217;t know how to measure. My mind takes the substance there and fashions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/07\/04\/starlight-on-fire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;starlight on fire&#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":[155,157,3,266],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flickr","tag-friends","tag-relationships","tag-understanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","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=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}