{"id":7893,"date":"2015-06-13T12:25:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=7893"},"modified":"2015-06-13T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:25:04","slug":"lexical-let-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/lexical-let-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexical Let-Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An encounter with an extra terrestrial:<\/p>\n<p>My intellectual burial.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An entire dictionary ahead,<\/p>\n<p>A thesaurus with a blend<\/p>\n<p>Of colours and sensations,<\/p>\n<p>All the precise evocations<\/p>\n<p>Of things that within our lexical limitations<\/p>\n<p>We cannot comprehend<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0our basic communications&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And all the frustrations,<\/p>\n<p>Because of the half-truths they send,<\/p>\n<p>Would come to an end<\/p>\n<p>If only we could master &#8211; through diplomatic negotiations &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>The languages spoken in intergalactic nations<\/p>\n<p>Imagine:<\/p>\n<p>The liberalisation<\/p>\n<p>And diversification<\/p>\n<p>Of thought<\/p>\n<p>If we only knew the concepts denoted by words<\/p>\n<p>Coined in other worlds &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>For issues we&#8217;ve never even encountered<\/p>\n<p>And the means by which they are surmounted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An encounter with an extra terrestrial: My intellectual burial. &nbsp; An entire dictionary ahead, A thesaurus with a blend Of colours and sensations, All the precise evocations Of things that within our lexical limitations We cannot comprehend With\u00a0our basic communications&#8230; And all the frustrations, Because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893","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\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8077,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions\/8077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}