{"id":232,"date":"2012-02-08T04:32:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T04:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/?p=232"},"modified":"2012-02-08T04:38:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T04:38:38","slug":"karavis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/2012\/02\/karavis\/","title":{"rendered":"Karavis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>by Gord Sellar<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The ocean split open, yielding fish<br \/>\ncovered in scales the color of a moon,<br \/>\nwith loud voices. They spoke like Oxford dons,<br \/>\nlike Turkish sailors, and Argentine women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">I looked into the nets, and wondered to myself<br \/>\nwhat, in the name of the gods, <em>this<\/em> could mean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em>&#8212; Iksan, 2002<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For those not acquainted with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andreas_Karavis\" target=\"_blank\">the Andreas Karavis hoax<\/a>, see here. For those who are acquainted with it, I studied with its perpetrator during 1999-2000 at Concordia University, and heard stories and reminiscences about Karavis all semester long&#8230; I missed the launch somehow &#8212; I think I was ill at the time &#8212; but heard the rest of the story in 2001 or 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gord Sellar The ocean split open, yielding fish covered in scales the color of a moon, with loud voices. They spoke like Oxford dons, like Turkish sailors, and Argentine women. I looked into the nets, and wondered to myself what, in the name of the gods, this could mean. &#8212; Iksan, 2002 &nbsp; For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-kr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xIep-karavis","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}