{"id":1869,"date":"2013-05-26T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2013-05-26T17:50:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T17:50:45","slug":"digging-around-in-the-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1869","title":{"rendered":"digging around in the archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happened upon this bit of text as I burrowed through musty files on backup drives, and I confess that I&#8217;m pleased with it:<\/p>\n<p>Start anywhere<br \/>\nIt all connects<br \/>\nand the trick is to choose<br \/>\namong branching paths<br \/>\nor perhaps it&#8217;s to<br \/>\nunwind the thread<br \/>\nas you sally forth<br \/>\nso as to be able<br \/>\nto reconstruct<br \/>\nyour wanderings<\/p>\n<p>That reconstruction is a tale<br \/>\na narrative of Tolkien proportions<br \/>\nthough without the necessity<br \/>\nof any end to the hero&#8217;s quest<br \/>\nand indeed with no heroes<br \/>\nor deus ex machina<br \/>\njust the progress of discovery<\/p>\n<p>And what does the Argonaut seek?<br \/>\nNot fleeces or immured maidens<br \/>\ngloriously slain foes<br \/>\nor vanquished enemies<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the link, the nexus,<br \/>\nthe skein of allusion<br \/>\nthe journey and not<br \/>\nthe destination<br \/>\nthe joys of finding and telling<\/p>\n<p>(28 xii 2008)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened upon this bit of text as I burrowed through musty files on backup drives, and I confess that I&#8217;m pleased with it: Start anywhere It all connects and the trick is to choose among branching paths or perhaps it&#8217;s to unwind the thread as you sally forth so as to be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}