{"id":239,"date":"2012-02-08T05:41:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T05:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/?p=239"},"modified":"2012-02-08T05:42:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T05:42:22","slug":"rainforests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/2012\/02\/rainforests\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainforests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>by Gord Sellar<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em>Ai! tan gras enveya m\u2019en ve<\/em><br \/>\n<em> de cui qu\u2019eu veya jauzion,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> meravilhas ai, car desse<\/em><br \/>\n<em> lo cor de dezirer no-m fon.<br \/>\n<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013Bernart de Ventadorn, \u201cCan vei le lauzeta mover\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Rainforests are dangerous things, they threaten us<br \/>\nwith the imminence of their collapse: they are<br \/>\nmandelbrot webworks a thousand miles wide<br \/>\nwhose guts shine and glitter like the sky<br \/>\nat night, spangled with the glossy wings of things<br \/>\ntoo numerous to count. And the greenness fills<br \/>\neverything it touches, spreading like sick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">And listen to me: every human thing,<br \/>\neach jealousy, each fear, desire, thought<br \/>\nis a rainforest perched on the edge of its own collapse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em>&#8212; Montreal, 1999<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gord Sellar Ai! tan gras enveya m\u2019en ve de cui qu\u2019eu veya jauzion, meravilhas ai, car desse lo cor de dezirer no-m fon. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013Bernart de Ventadorn, \u201cCan vei le lauzeta mover\u201d Rainforests are dangerous things, they threaten us with the imminence of their collapse: they are mandelbrot webworks a thousand miles wide whose guts [&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":[6],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-canada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xIep-3R","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}