{"id":3398,"date":"2018-10-28T17:52:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T21:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2018-10-28T17:56:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T21:56:36","slug":"still-more-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3398","title":{"rendered":"still more imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some creatures only appear once, never to be found again, accidents of light and angle and fate. This is one such:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/30643346047\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"DI26x1864\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1944\/30643346047_358b7b6433_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"DI26x1864\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nIt took me a day or two to see the elephant and the sharp-goateed tiger:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/31712324638\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"DI26x1866\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1961\/31712324638_9353b15092_z.jpg\" width=\"457\" height=\"640\" alt=\"DI26x1866\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nand not until today did I discover (1) the muppet Statler on the left side:<br \/>\n<center><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/44691635835\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"Statlerpair\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1971\/44691635835_6331caee89.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"303\" alt=\"Statlerpair\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center> and (2) a nameless musk ox on the right:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/43787877920\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"muskoxpair\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1923\/43787877920_78c6a9f9fe.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"247\" alt=\"muskoxpair\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think I could find that rock again, and even if I did, I doubt that those creatures would manifest again.<\/p>\n<p>Other readings are of course possible. The &#8216;musk ox&#8217; could be a disgruntled chimpanzee, and the &#8216;elephant&#8217; may be an open-jawed creature about to bite Statler&#8217;s head off as the tiger looks on. YMMV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some creatures only appear once, never to be found again, accidents of light and angle and fate. This is one such: It took me a day or two to see the elephant and the sharp-goateed tiger: and not until today did I discover (1) the muppet Statler on the left side: and (2) a nameless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398","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=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3402,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions\/3402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}