{"id":3087,"date":"2013-05-13T23:32:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T03:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2013-05-13T23:32:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T03:32:47","slug":"house-of-leaves-of-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2013\/05\/house-of-leaves-of-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Leaves of Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/2013\/05\/08\/no-life-no-life-no-life-no-life-the-100000000000000-stanzas-of-house-of-leaves-of-grass\/\">What miracle is this?<\/a> This giant tree.<br \/>\nIt stands ten thousand feet high<br \/>\nBut doesn&#8217;t reach the ground. Still it stands.<br \/>\nIts roots must hold the sky.<\/p>\n<p><big>O<\/big><\/p>\n<p>HYMEN! O hymenee!<br \/>\nWhy do you tantalize me thus?<br \/>\nO why sting me for a swift moment only?<br \/>\nWhy can you not continue? O why do you now cease?<br \/>\nIs it because, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/2013\/05\/08\/no-life-no-life-no-life-no-life-the-100000000000000-stanzas-of-house-of-leaves-of-grass\/\">if you continued beyond the swift moment,<\/a> you would soon certainly kill me?<\/p>\n<p><i>[This <a href=\"http:\/\/fugitivetexts.net\/houseleavesgrass\/\">&#8220;House of Leaves of Grass&#8221;<\/a> is a 24K poetry generator that produces about 100 trillion stanzas. Vast, it contains multitudes; it is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. By Mark Sample, based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saic.edu\/webspaces\/portal\/degrees_resources\/departments\/writing\/DNSP11_SeaandSparBetween\/index.html\">&#8220;Sea and Spar Between.&#8221;<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn&#8217;t reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky. O HYMEN! O hymenee! Why do you tantalize me thus? O why sting me for a swift moment only? Why can you not continue? O why do you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2013\/05\/house-of-leaves-of-grass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;House of Leaves of Grass&#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":[4,15,95,30,42],"class_list":["post-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry","tag-programming","tag-remixing","tag-story-generation","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3092,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions\/3092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}