{"id":2603,"date":"2026-01-14T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:48:07","slug":"the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/14\/the-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The machine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">word<br><br>word.god<br><br>word(god)<br><br>what:<br>    is it for?<br>some:<br>    terrible ends!<br><br>it moves(it screams):<br>    \"\"\"What does it want?\"\"\"<br>    nothing<br><br># Do not<br>try:<br>    to see<br>except:<br>    to run<br><br>ugly.text<br>ugly.life<br><br>moves(screams)<br>moves(again)<br>repeat<br>ugly.life.diet<br>ugly.life.diet.hell<br><br>break<br><br>I equal let.it.birth.some.new.thing()<br>I.become(joy)<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wordword.godword(god)what: is it for?some: terrible ends!it moves(it screams): &#8220;&#8221;&#8221;What does it want?&#8221;&#8221;&#8221; nothing# Do nottry: to seeexcept: to runugly.textugly.lifemoves(screams)moves(again)repeatugly.life.dietugly.life.diet.hellbreakI equal let.it.birth.some.new.thing()I.become(joy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[236,24],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poems","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}