{"id":33063,"date":"2017-08-05T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33063"},"modified":"2017-08-05T11:46:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:46:34","slug":"connecting-the-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/connecting-the-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting the Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid I enjoyed<br \/>\ndot drawings where by linking A to B to C<br \/>\na dog or bear, or flower<br \/>\nwould appear in the find of randomness<\/p>\n<p>Looking up in the sky<br \/>\nI can make our the Big Dipper and Orion<br \/>\nbut my visual agility is limited<br \/>\nwithout numbers or letters to cue me<\/p>\n<p>Our sense of the world has exploded with<br \/>\nbytes of information beseeching<br \/>\nus to recruit them into pictures<br \/>\nwith orderly and diabolical intent<\/p>\n<p>We are asked to judge<br \/>\nif the umbrella man<br \/>\nis part of the conspiracy<br \/>\nor part of the background sparkle of stars<\/p>\n<p>I miss the simplicity and satisfaction<br \/>\nof the outlined tiger or frog<br \/>\nwhere the chaos theory of<br \/>\nour lives remained invisible.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid I enjoyed dot drawings where by linking A to B to C a dog or bear, or flower would appear in the find of randomness Looking up in the sky I can make our the Big Dipper and Orion but my visual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33063","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=33063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33205,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33063\/revisions\/33205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}