{"id":23533,"date":"2016-08-13T18:44:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23533"},"modified":"2016-08-13T18:44:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:44:03","slug":"ode-to-negative-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ode-to-negative-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Negative Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky or not I see faces everywhere.<br \/>\nWalking in a Death Valley canyon at dusk once,<br \/>\nI became overwhelmed by the changing animal and human faces<br \/>\nreflecting off the canyon walls. <\/p>\n<p>I rejoice in that negative space<br \/>\naround and between the images where<br \/>\nthe new pictures that are created<br \/>\nhint at a different version of reality. <\/p>\n<p>In Jewish mysticism, the torah scrolls<br \/>\nare described as black fire on white fire<br \/>\nwhere the deeper meaning is inscribed<br \/>\nin the white background.  <\/p>\n<p>I reside in those backgrounds<br \/>\nroaming about in the hope that<br \/>\nit will become clearer what<br \/>\nthose faces have to tell me.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky or not I see faces everywhere. Walking in a Death Valley canyon at dusk once, I became overwhelmed by the changing animal and human faces reflecting off the canyon walls. I rejoice in that negative space around and between the images where the new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23700,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23533\/revisions\/23700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}