{"id":1554,"date":"2014-06-22T00:06:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T00:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2015-05-17T00:12:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T00:12:35","slug":"earth-man-and-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/earth-man-and-the-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth, Man and the Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1554-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/EarthMan&#038;?_=1#038;TheMachineVx3.mp3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/EarthMan&#038;TheMachineVx3.mp3\">https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/EarthMan&#038;TheMachineVx3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have lost ourselves unfortunately,<br \/>\namong the machines,<br \/>\ngroping as blind animals in dusky<br \/>\nforest after old trails<br \/>\nand well known places.<\/p>\n<p>It was written long ago<br \/>\nthat this should be so.<\/p>\n<p>And before it was written,<br \/>\nwhen man first stood<br \/>\nupright and huddled<br \/>\nhis first fire,<br \/>\nand first picked a rock<br \/>\nto throw at a rabbit,<\/p>\n<p>it was apparent<br \/>\nthat the rock  should overtake the man<br \/>\nand he should crouch in fear of it,<br \/>\nmathematically certain<br \/>\nhe\u2019d be hit if he ran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/EarthMan&#038;TheMachineVx3.mp3 &nbsp; We have lost ourselves unfortunately, among the machines, groping as blind animals in dusky forest after old trails and well known places. It was written long ago that this should be so. And before it was written, when man first stood upright and huddled his first fire, and first picked a rock to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poemsofbecoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}