{"id":51564,"date":"2024-06-24T22:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T02:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/?p=51564"},"modified":"2024-07-08T16:34:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:34:55","slug":"gold-foil-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/poetry\/gold-foil-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Foil Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_52004\" style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52004\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52004\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gold_Full.png?resize=313%2C500\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gold_Full.png?resize=313%2C500&amp;ssl=1 313w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Gold_Full.png?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-52004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>\u201cGold Foil Experiment\u201d \u00a9 2024 by Teo Nalani<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<script>\nfunction showWarning_enUS() {\n    var content_warning_list = document.getElementById(\"content-warning-enUS\");\n\n    if (content_warning_list.style.display === \"none\") {\n        content_warning_list.style.display = \"block\";\n    } else {\n        content_warning_list.style.display = \"none\";\n    }\n}\n<\/script><div lang=\"en-US\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"content-warning-container-ltr\"><p><strong class=\"content-warning-title\">Content warning:<\/strong><br\/><button onclick=\"showWarning_enUS()\">Show warnings<\/button><\/p><div class=\"content-warning\" id=\"content-warning-enUS\" style=\"display: none;\" ><p>This page contains: <\/p><ul><li>No content warnings<\/li><\/ul><\/div><br\/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are all harmonic oscillators<br \/>\nsloshing around in watery bags of salt,<br \/>\ndoing work on the surroundings<br \/>\nas patiently chaos consumes us.<\/p>\n<p>As feelings arrive in waves to wash our brains<br \/>\nand scientists shoot little balls at sheets of gold,<br \/>\nI see the absurdity on your face:<br \/>\nThese bodies are sixty percent water<br \/>\nand water is ninety-nine<br \/>\n&emsp; &emsp; point nine-nine-nine<br \/>\n&emsp; &emsp; &emsp; percent empty space.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a wonder there is anything at all in this place.<\/p>\n<p>So lift up the layers of your carbon skeleton<br \/>\nto the energy raining down from the heavens\u2014<br \/>\nfor here, in the ragdoll physics of this world,<br \/>\nwe are the resonating filaments<br \/>\nof a song across the abyss.<\/p>\n<br class=\"clear_both\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are all harmonic oscillators \/ Sloshing around in watery bags of salt,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"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":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[730],"class_list":["post-51564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-poetry","tag-no-content-warning"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82q22-dpG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51564"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51785,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51564\/revisions\/51785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}