{"id":165413,"date":"2015-03-03T13:21:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T13:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/03\/what-is-it-that-you-contain-the-dead-time\/"},"modified":"2015-03-03T13:21:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T13:21:06","slug":"what-is-it-that-you-contain-the-dead-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/03\/what-is-it-that-you-contain-the-dead-time\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you.<\/p>\n<p>Your first parent was a star.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/9399.Jeanette_Winterson\" target=\"_blank\">Jeanette Winterson<\/a>,\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/2270630\" target=\"_blank\">Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles<\/a><\/i> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/thewordslam.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">thewordslam<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/03\/what-is-it-that-you-contain-the-dead-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[353,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}