{"id":101,"date":"2018-11-09T00:33:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=101"},"modified":"2018-11-09T00:33:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:33:39","slug":"u-s-defaults-to-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/11\/09\/u-s-defaults-to-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Defaults to Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/~harnad\/newyork.htm\">September 11 2001<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Gershwin&#8217;s gay garish Gotham<br \/>\ntoday has joined the ranks<br \/>\nof Gaia&#8217;s tragicopoles,<br \/>\nLondon, Dresden, Gdansk<\/p>\n<p>for evermore.<\/p>\n<p>An unhallowed razor,<br \/>\nthrust,<br \/>\nso savagely,<\/p>\n<p>into the apple`s core.<\/p>\n<p>But please,<\/p>\n<p>spare us the braying<br \/>\nof the semioticians of symmetry.<\/p>\n<p>Let them stay huddled,<br \/>\nparetically,<br \/>\nin Zeno&#8217;s corner,<br \/>\nruminating,<br \/>\nendlessly,<br \/>\non the etymology and etiology<br \/>\nthe means\/ends mission statements<br \/>\nof &#8220;horror,&#8221; and &#8220;counterhorror,&#8221;<br \/>\nlateral, collateral, and full frontal,<br \/>\nthe feudal bloodline<br \/>\nof our selfish genes,<br \/>\neven unto the Big Bang,<\/p>\n<p>while we chew instead<br \/>\non whether high-tech sociopathy<br \/>\nand low-tech superstition<br \/>\nwere indeed always slated<br \/>\nto win the day,<br \/>\neventually,<br \/>\nin life&#8217;s no-sin, no-sum<br \/>\ngame<br \/>\nof Gaussian roulette.<\/p>\n<p><b>Coda: Homage to William of Ockham<\/b><br \/>\n<i>(Or, The Hazards of Passive Exposure To Involuntary Co-Martyrdom)<\/i><br \/>\n<i>(Or, Trumping Pascal&#8217;s Wager)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>our forebears had it right<br \/>\nthe fewer gods the better<br \/>\nmonody just undershot<br \/>\nthe optimum by<br \/>\none <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 11 2001 Gershwin&#8217;s gay garish Gotham today has joined the ranks of Gaia&#8217;s tragicopoles, London, Dresden, Gdansk for evermore. An unhallowed razor, thrust, so savagely, into the apple`s core. But please, spare us the braying of the semioticians of symmetry. Let them stay huddled, paretically, in Zeno&#8217;s corner, ruminating, endlessly, on the etymology and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/11\/09\/u-s-defaults-to-denmark\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U.S. Defaults to Denmark&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}