{"id":1030,"date":"2012-07-15T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2013-03-05T01:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T01:00:54","slug":"poem-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Poem (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>You Fatalism<\/h4>\n<p>The anonymous artist<br \/>\ncalling herself You Fatalism<br \/>\nwants you to be shocked and delighted<br \/>\nby her detailed descriptions of mallard corpses<br \/>\nand her feather-flecked model aeroplanes.<\/p>\n<p>The unsigned stencils,<br \/>\nfound in unfashionable areas of Beijing,<br \/>\nadd to the enigmaticity;<br \/>\nas do the occasional rumors,<br \/>\nthat You is a collective of art-workers<br \/>\nin a Shenzhen business park<br \/>\nwhipped by some opportunistic plutocrat<br \/>\nwho sees art as the Next Big Thing.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, when I study<br \/>\nthe needle-thin tower,<br \/>\na product of a thousand sparrow-bones,<br \/>\nor the smear on an eighteenth-story window<br \/>\nwhere an overambitious robotic bird has smashed,<br \/>\nI can only believe,<br \/>\nthat You is a single intelligence,<br \/>\nwith one obsessive thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Fatalism The anonymous artist calling herself You Fatalism wants you to be shocked and delighted by her detailed descriptions of mallard corpses and her feather-flecked model aeroplanes. The unsigned stencils, found in unfashionable areas of Beijing, add to the enigmaticity; as do the occasional rumors, that You is a collective of art-workers in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}