{"id":3522,"date":"2010-02-18T23:10:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T04:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2010-02-19T00:11:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T05:11:45","slug":"yes-i-was-reading-that-powers-bibliography-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/18\/yes-i-was-reading-that-powers-bibliography-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I Was Reading That Powers Bibliography Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sphinx And Medusa<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Clark Ashton Smith<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The old constraint of an essential bond<br \/>\nHath linkt them in my mind: opposed they stare,<br \/>\nTwin silences, that through Time&#8217;s Otherwhere,<br \/>\nThe ruinous past, thus each to each respond,<br \/>\nOne with mysterious gaze that sees beyond<br \/>\nThe straining suns, calm as the voidness there;<br \/>\nAnd one with eyes like deserts of despair,<br \/>\nFlameless as granite, clear as diamond.<\/p>\n<p>They gaze across the past&#8230; Yet thought must see<br \/>\nThat eve of time when man no longer yearns,<br \/>\nGrown deaf before Life&#8217;s Sphinx, whose lips are barred;<br \/>\nWhen from the spaces of Eternity,<br \/>\nSilence, a rigorous Medusa, turns<br \/>\nOn the lost world the stress of her regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Sphinx And Medusa Clark Ashton Smith The old constraint of an essential bond Hath linkt them in my mind: opposed they stare, Twin silences, that through Time&#8217;s Otherwhere, The ruinous past, thus each to each respond, One with mysterious gaze that sees beyond The straining suns, calm as the voidness there; And one with eyes like deserts of despair, Flameless&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/18\/yes-i-was-reading-that-powers-bibliography-today\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[356,194],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-clark-ashton-smith","tag-poem","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-UO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3525,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions\/3525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}