{"id":269,"date":"2011-05-26T10:30:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T10:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/?p=269"},"modified":"2011-06-04T10:54:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T10:54:59","slug":"week-21-may-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"week 21, May 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/11_May_week_21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-271\" title=\"11_May_week_21\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/11_May_week_21-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/11_May_week_21-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/11_May_week_21.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In Himalaya, people place small flags inscribed with prayers in locations where\u00a0the strongest winds blow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Under the constant battering by the winds, the\u00a0fabric starts to disintegrate, and the flags are torn apart scattering the pieces in every direction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is how\u00a0the prayers are freed from their material, worldly aspect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It just occurred to me,\u00a0 the same procedure, or ritual,\u00a0is recurrently performed with\u00a0 shells of snails.\u00a0A surface of a shell\u00a0is rough and inscribed with scratches\u00a0made by the sea, a reminiscent of writing;\u00a0 a prayer perhaps, or a wish, or a prophesy.\u00a0Breaking free from the captive form means that you have to crack the shell in order to let the spirit go &#8211; wherever it then goes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But I don&#8217;t crack shells or snails, and never will. It is the sea itself\u00a0 with its mighly waves that amuses itself by\u00a0inscribing its undeciphrable\u00a0symbols on living things, snails, conches, shellfish, and then, whimsically, it cracks these small creatures\u00a0against rocks destroying its own\u00a0messages and\u00a0messengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Himalaya, people place small flags inscribed with prayers in locations where\u00a0the strongest winds blow. Under the constant battering by the winds, the\u00a0fabric starts to disintegrate, and the flags are torn apart scattering the pieces in every direction. This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/?p=269\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-music","category-silence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metamorfoosi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}