{"id":11952,"date":"2025-04-03T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=11952"},"modified":"2025-04-03T17:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T22:34:05","slug":"blessed-be-the-ties-that-bind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=11952","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Earth, Our Island Home*&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We sail on a ship called &#8220;Earth, Our Island Home*&#8221;,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Shackled and bound galley slaves skimming star-capped electromagnetic waves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Smash your irons and break your bonds if you dare,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jump into the Empty,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Uncaring black sea where there is<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No treading space to breathe,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No lucky lifeboat,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No luxury liner with safe passage to Mars,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No opt-out, even for taskmasters cracking cat o&#8217; nine tails on blistered backs.<\/p>\n<p>*<em>Book of Common Prayer 1979<\/em>, Eucharist Prayer C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sail on a ship called &#8220;Earth, Our Island Home*&#8221;, Shackled and bound galley slaves skimming star-capped electromagnetic waves. Smash your irons and break your bonds if you dare, Jump into the Empty, Uncaring black sea&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11952"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11970,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11952\/revisions\/11970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}