{"id":15981,"date":"2016-08-13T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=15981"},"modified":"2016-08-03T15:14:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:14:12","slug":"oh-for-an-unbridgeable-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/13\/oh-for-an-unbridgeable-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh for an unbridgeable abyss&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You touch the great lonely land,<br \/>\nonly to plant upon it some ugliness<br \/>\nabout which, never dreaming of the grace<br \/>\nof apology or contrition,<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nyou then proceed to brag with<br \/>\na cynicism of your own.<br \/>\n\u2026and I should owe you my grudge<br \/>\nfor every disfigurement and every violence,<br \/>\nfor every wound with which you have<br \/>\ncaused the face of the land to bleed.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Is the germ of anything finely human\u2026<br \/>\nsupposably planted in such conditions of<br \/>\nendless stretching and such boundless spreading<br \/>\nas shall appear finally to minister<br \/>\nbut to the triumph of the superficial<br \/>\nand the apotheosis of the raw?<\/p>\n<p>Oh for a split or a chasm\u2026<br \/>\nOh for an unbridgeable abyss<br \/>\nor an insuperable mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Henry James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/henryjames.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15982\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/henryjames.jpg\" alt=\"henryjames\" width=\"480\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/henryjames.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/henryjames-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You touch the great lonely land, only to plant upon it some ugliness about which, never dreaming of the grace of apology or contrition, you then proceed to brag with a cynicism of your own. \u2026and I should owe you my grudge for every disfigurement and every violence, for every wound with which you have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15983,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981\/revisions\/15983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}