{"id":959,"date":"2004-09-26T09:26:36","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T13:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=959"},"modified":"2004-09-26T09:26:36","modified_gmt":"2004-09-26T13:26:36","slug":"a-work-of-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"A work of imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.net\/dirs\/1\/2\/9\/6\/12962\/12962-h\/12962-h.htm\" title=\"via Boingboing\">This link<\/a> is a complete, short, Project Gutenberg reprint of a booklet of  half a dozen Victorian hand shadow postures. You see the hand in the foregrounds, and the animal in the background. That&#8217;s it. You don&#8217;t see the  shadow even in the instructions to cast it. You see the animal, just as clearly as they saw in Lascaux.<\/p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a sight worth keeping in mind, when thinking about metaphor, or God.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This link is a complete, short, Project Gutenberg reprint of a booklet of half a dozen Victorian hand shadow postures. You see the hand in the foregrounds, and the animal in the background. That&#8217;s it. You don&#8217;t see the shadow &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=959\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=959\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}