{"id":14628,"date":"2011-09-03T06:15:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=14628"},"modified":"2011-09-03T08:29:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T15:29:10","slug":"the-spider-the-starfish-and-a-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/09\/03\/the-spider-the-starfish-and-a-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spider, the Starfish and a Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YtXPmWJcuZY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOne does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is no logical reason for the existence of a snowflake any more than there is for evolution. It is an apparition from that mysterious shadow world beyond nature, that final world which contains\u2014if anything contains\u2014the explanation of men and catfish and green leaves.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loren_Eiseley\">Loren Eiseley<\/a>  September 3, 1907<br \/>\n(anthropologist, philosopher, and natural science writer)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eiseley.org\/reviews\/dderrick-immensejourney.php\">Immense Journey (a book review)<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Nk5mfEjwfEQ&#038;feature=related\">Starfish Story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Starfish_and_the_Spider\">The Starfish and the Spider<\/a> The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations is a 2006 book by Ori Brafman  (Is this a good book? )  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1Surfe2.jpg\" alt=\"1Surfe\" title=\"1Surfe\" width=\"552\" height=\"411\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1Surfe2.jpg 552w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1Surfe2-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><br \/>\n(Bored surf-board) &#8211; Fung Lin Hall) <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EefUhL2kHkM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>R.I P <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com.14feb-youth.com\/jacketcopy\/2011\/08\/samuel-menashe.html\">Samuel Menashe<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cWe think not in words but in shadows of words,\u201d <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is never an end to loss, or hope<br \/>\nI give up the ghost for which I grope<br \/>\nOver and over again saying Amen<br \/>\nTo all that does or does not happen\u2014<br \/>\nThe eternal event is now, not when &#8211;<br \/>\nSamuel Menashe <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOne does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.\u201d \u201cIf there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.\u201d &#8220;There is no logical reason for the existence of a snowflake any more than there is for evolution. It is an apparition from that mysterious shadow world &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/09\/03\/the-spider-the-starfish-and-a-poet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Spider, the Starfish and a Poet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,17,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-poetry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}