{"id":18436,"date":"2014-01-08T17:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/apollo-the-god-of-light-of-reason-of\/"},"modified":"2014-01-08T17:00:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T17:00:42","slug":"apollo-the-god-of-light-of-reason-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/apollo-the-god-of-light-of-reason-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Apollo, the god of light, of reason, of proportion, harmony, number\u2014Apollo blinds those who press too close in worship. Don\u2019t look straight at the sun. Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysios, every now and then. <\/p>\n<p>I talk about gods; I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.  <\/p>\n<p>The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie. Psychologically defined, a symbol. Aesthetically defined, a metaphor.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Ursula K. Le Guin, \u201cIntroduction,\u201d <em>The Left Hand of Darkness<\/em>, 1976 (via <a href=\"http:\/\/mayhap.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">mayhap<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apollo, the god of light, of reason, of proportion, harmony, number\u2014Apollo blinds those who press too close in worship. Don\u2019t look straight at the sun. Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysios, every now and then. I talk about gods; I am an atheist. But I am an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4Nm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}