{"id":3816,"date":"2012-05-27T01:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2012\/05\/27\/my-life-in-the-belly-of-the-world-beast\/"},"modified":"2012-05-27T01:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T01:18:00","slug":"my-life-in-the-belly-of-the-world-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2012\/05\/27\/my-life-in-the-belly-of-the-world-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"my life in the belly of the world beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Astronomy&#8221;<br \/>\n<i>by Albert Goldbarth<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It dies. And a gazillion years in the future<br \/>\nthe sight of its dying reaches Earth.<br \/>\n&#8212; Computed in dinosaur years, that&#8217;s three days<br \/>\nfrom the brain&#8217;s death to its being recognized as dead<br \/>\nin the far frontiers of the tail.<\/p>\n<p>Night. A party. &#8220;Come out here for a minute.&#8221;<br \/>\nDina told me: she&#8217;d miscarried. But<br \/>\nher body hadn&#8217;t registered that yet, it kept<br \/>\npreparing for a birth. And so we sat on the porch<br \/>\nin silence for a while, in the light of that star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Astronomy&#8221; by Albert Goldbarth It dies. And a gazillion years in the future the sight of its dying reaches Earth. &#8212; Computed in dinosaur years, that&#8217;s three days from the brain&#8217;s death to its being recognized as dead in the far frontiers of the tail. Night. A party. &#8220;Come out here for a minute.&#8221; Dina &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2012\/05\/27\/my-life-in-the-belly-of-the-world-beast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;my life in the belly of the world beast&#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":[128],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","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=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}