{"id":104,"date":"2005-02-18T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2005-02-18T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-18T03:45:00","slug":"104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/104\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is great stuff, in a great book by <a href=\"http:\/\/nealstephenson.com\/\">a great writer<\/a>. Read Cryptonomicon first if you haven&#8217;t already, it&#8217;s fantastic.<\/p>\n<p><i>Invocation<\/i><\/p>\n<p>State your intentions, Muse. I know you&#8217;re there.<br \/>Dead bards who pined for you have said<br \/>You&#8217;re bright as flame, but fickle as the air.<br \/>My pen and I, submerged in a liquid shade,<br \/>Much dark can spread, on days and over reams<br \/>But without you, no radiance can shed.<br \/>Why rustle in the dark, when fledged with fire?<br \/>Craze the night with flails of light. Reave<br \/>Your turbid shroud. Bestow what I require.<\/p>\n<p>But you&#8217;re not in the dark. I do believe<br \/>I swim, like squid, in clouds of my own make,<br \/>To you, offensive. To us both, opaque.<br \/>What&#8217;s constituted so, only a pen<br \/>Can penetrate. I have one here; let&#8217;s go.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8212;Neal Stephenson in Quicksilver<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is great stuff, in a great book by a great writer. Read Cryptonomicon first if you haven&#8217;t already, it&#8217;s fantastic. Invocation State your intentions, Muse. I know you&#8217;re there.Dead bards who pined for you have saidYou&#8217;re bright as flame, but fickle as the air.My pen and I, submerged in a liquid shade,Much dark can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/104\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}