{"id":1359,"date":"2015-05-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2015-05-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T17:00:00","slug":"image-of-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/08\/image-of-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/scan0007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1360\" src=\"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/scan0007.jpg?w=193\" alt=\"Image of Venus\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image of Venus as she appeared to me on Friday 23 January 2015.<\/p>\n<p>A feminine, bare-breasted, brown-skinned figure with green-and-red wings instead of hair and a fire atop her head. \u00a0She has a single eye on the right side of her face but which does not restrain itself to the natural dimensions of her head. \u00a0She holds a staff in her right hand, bearing the traditional symbol of the planet Venus at the top, and a green robe drapes down from her left shoulder, concealing her arm and all below her waist. \u00a0A foaming sea crashes in the background.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be honest, I expected Venus to be less &#8230; complicated. \u00a0Certainly less uncanny. \u00a0I did not expect the fire imagery, or the cyclopian stare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image of Venus as she appeared to me on Friday 23 January 2015. A feminine, bare-breasted, brown-skinned figure with green-and-red wings instead of hair and a fire atop her head. \u00a0She has a single eye on the right side of her face but which does not restrain itself to the natural dimensions of her head. &hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/08\/image-of-venus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-lV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}