{"id":324,"date":"2006-10-03T17:43:59","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T21:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/03\/cult\/"},"modified":"2006-10-03T17:43:59","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T21:43:59","slug":"cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/03\/cult\/","title":{"rendered":"Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a particular universe<br \/>\nCyclops was a handsome man<br \/>\nwhose finesse and culture<br \/>\nwere renowned.<br \/>\nYoung men unfortunate enough<br \/>\nto be binocular would<br \/>\ndig out an eye and break<br \/>\ntheir noses so they would<br \/>\nline up under the remaining<br \/>\neye, and dress as He did,<br \/>\nsome even going so far<br \/>\n\u2014 after he died in a skiing<br \/>\naccident, and was only<br \/>\nunclearly remembered \u2014<br \/>\nwould go so far as to<br \/>\namputate one leg and<br \/>\nhop everywhere; others,<br \/>\nnot to be outdone would<br \/>\namputate one arm, and<br \/>\neven others, a testicle,<br \/>\nso revered was the gorgeous<br \/>\nCyclos, in memory, at least;<br \/>\nuntil, ultimately, the lovely<br \/>\nCycle herself was forgotten,<br \/>\nand only the cult of<br \/>\nBeauty remained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a particular universe Cyclops was a handsome man whose finesse and culture were renowned. Young men unfortunate enough to be binocular would dig out an eye and break their noses so they would line up under the remaining eye, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/03\/cult\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}