{"id":31,"date":"2006-05-13T22:25:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T03:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simpletone.com\/cdi\/aharon\/writing\/wordpress\/?p=31"},"modified":"2008-06-09T17:51:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T22:51:32","slug":"more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge","title":{"rendered":"More from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspired by Borges’ 14 kinds of animals<\/a> catalogued in “a certain Chinese encyclopedia, The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge<\/em>,” here are<\/p>\n

14 kinds of people<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. those mistaken for bigfoot<\/li>\n
  2. those who are asleep<\/li>\n
  3. government workers<\/li>\n
  4. nameless ones<\/li>\n
  5. those who exist only in dreams<\/li>\n
  6. women with cats<\/li>\n
  7. seafaring ones<\/li>\n
  8. those who are crying that cannot be consoled<\/li>\n
  9. actors<\/li>\n
  10. dead ancestors<\/li>\n
  11. babies<\/li>\n
  12. others<\/li>\n
  13. cyborgs, or drivers of cars<\/li>\n
  14. those that are already driven to madness<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Inspired by Borges’ 14 kinds of animals catalogued in “a certain Chinese encyclopedia, The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge,” here are<\/p>\n

    14 kinds of people<\/p>\n

    those mistaken for bigfoot those who are asleep government workers nameless ones those who exist only in dreams women with cats seafaring ones those who are crying that cannot be . . . → Continue reading: More from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-jorge-luis-borges","odd"],"yoast_head":"\nMore from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge • Aharon's Omphalos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge • Aharon's Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Inspired by Borges’ 14 kinds of animals catalogued in “a certain Chinese encyclopedia, The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge,” here are 14 kinds of people those mistaken for bigfoot those who are asleep government workers nameless ones those who exist only in dreams women with cats seafaring ones those who are crying that cannot be . . . → Continue reading: More from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aharon's Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-05-14T03:25:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2008-06-09T22:51:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/aharons-omphalos.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1257\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1487\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Aharon N. Varady\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@http:\/\/twitter.com\/aharonium\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@aharonium\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Aharon N. Varady\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Aharon N. Varady\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/995b8f7b388fb460e5204034604079f5\"},\"headline\":\"More from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge\",\"datePublished\":\"2006-05-14T03:25:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2008-06-09T22:51:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge\"},\"wordCount\":79,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/995b8f7b388fb460e5204034604079f5\"},\"keywords\":[\"Jorge Luis Borges\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Poetry\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge\",\"name\":\"More from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge • Aharon's Omphalos\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2006-05-14T03:25:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2008-06-09T22:51:32+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/contact\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"More from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/\",\"name\":\"Aharon's Omphalos\",\"description\":\"spinning navel lint into fine yarn\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/995b8f7b388fb460e5204034604079f5\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/995b8f7b388fb460e5204034604079f5\",\"name\":\"Aharon N. Varady\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Aharon-Varady.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Aharon-Varady.jpg\",\"width\":1061,\"height\":1062,\"caption\":\"Aharon N. Varady\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\"},\"description\":\"Aharon's Omphalos is the hobbit hole of Aharon Varady, founding director of the Open Siddur Project. He is a community planner and environmental educator working to improve stewardship of the Public Domain, be it the physical and natural commons of urban park systems or the creative and cultural commons of libraries and museums. His advocacy for open-source strategies in the Jewish community has been written about in the Atlantic Magazine, the Yiddish Forverts, Tablet, and Haaretz. He is particularly interested in pedagogies for advancing ecological wisdom, developing creative and emotional intelligence, and realizing effective theurgical praxes. He welcomes your comments, personal messages, and kind words. If you find his work helpful to your own or you'd simply like to support him, please consider donating via his Patreon account.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\",\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/http:\/\/twitter.com\/aharonium\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/author\/admin\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"More from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge • Aharon's Omphalos","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"More from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge • Aharon's Omphalos","og_description":"Inspired by Borges’ 14 kinds of animals catalogued in “a certain Chinese encyclopedia, The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge,” here are 14 kinds of people those mistaken for bigfoot those who are asleep government workers nameless ones those who exist only in dreams women with cats seafaring ones those who are crying that cannot be . . . → Continue reading: More from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge","og_url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge","og_site_name":"Aharon's Omphalos","article_publisher":"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium","article_author":"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium","article_published_time":"2006-05-14T03:25:34+00:00","article_modified_time":"2008-06-09T22:51:32+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1257,"height":1487,"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/aharons-omphalos.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Aharon N. Varady","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@http:\/\/twitter.com\/aharonium","twitter_site":"@aharonium","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Aharon N. Varady"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge"},"author":{"name":"Aharon N. Varady","@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/995b8f7b388fb460e5204034604079f5"},"headline":"More from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge","datePublished":"2006-05-14T03:25:34+00:00","dateModified":"2008-06-09T22:51:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge"},"wordCount":79,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/995b8f7b388fb460e5204034604079f5"},"keywords":["Jorge Luis Borges"],"articleSection":["Poetry"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge","url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge","name":"More from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge • Aharon's Omphalos","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#website"},"datePublished":"2006-05-14T03:25:34+00:00","dateModified":"2008-06-09T22:51:32+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/contact"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"More from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#website","url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/","name":"Aharon's Omphalos","description":"spinning navel lint into fine yarn","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/995b8f7b388fb460e5204034604079f5"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/995b8f7b388fb460e5204034604079f5","name":"Aharon N. Varady","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Aharon-Varady.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Aharon-Varady.jpg","width":1061,"height":1062,"caption":"Aharon N. Varady"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/"},"description":"Aharon's Omphalos is the hobbit hole of Aharon Varady, founding director of the Open Siddur Project. He is a community planner and environmental educator working to improve stewardship of the Public Domain, be it the physical and natural commons of urban park systems or the creative and cultural commons of libraries and museums. His advocacy for open-source strategies in the Jewish community has been written about in the Atlantic Magazine, the Yiddish Forverts, Tablet, and Haaretz. He is particularly interested in pedagogies for advancing ecological wisdom, developing creative and emotional intelligence, and realizing effective theurgical praxes. He welcomes your comments, personal messages, and kind words. If you find his work helpful to your own or you'd simply like to support him, please consider donating via his Patreon account.","sameAs":["https:\/\/aharon.varady.net","http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium","https:\/\/x.com\/http:\/\/twitter.com\/aharonium"],"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/author\/admin"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgdGV-v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3475,"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2024\/09\/virgo-power","url_meta":{"origin":31,"position":0},"title":"Virgo Power","author":"Aharon N. Varady","date":"September 13, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The sixth month of the year, Elul, is my birthday month which usually translates to the Gregorian calendar as occurring in September. As the months of the Jewish\/Hebrew calendar are strongly associated with their mazalot (constellations), so Elul is associated with the mazal of Betulah (Virgo). Perhaps it is already\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Mythology"","block_context":{"text":"Mythology","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/category\/yiddishkeit\/mythology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/virgo-power-Aharon-Varady-2024-CC-BY-SA.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/virgo-power-Aharon-Varady-2024-CC-BY-SA.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/virgo-power-Aharon-Varady-2024-CC-BY-SA.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/virgo-power-Aharon-Varady-2024-CC-BY-SA.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":78,"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/08\/philip-k-dick-and-the-heavenly-music-corporation","url_meta":{"origin":31,"position":1},"title":"Philip K. Dick and the Heavenly Music Corporation","author":"Aharon N. Varady","date":"August 2, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 In Man in the High Castle (1963), Philip K. Dick's masterpiece novel written in collaboration with the I Ching\u00a0about a parallel world with its own parallel Philip K. Dick, i.e., the man in the high castle. This man in the high castle, who we never meet, is a man\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Music"","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/category\/art\/music"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/tmithc1ukLarge.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":604,"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2009\/01\/amplified-harmonic-resonance-playlist-for-monday-morning-2009-01-05","url_meta":{"origin":31,"position":2},"title":"Amplified Harmonic Resonance: Playlist for Monday morning, 2009-01-05","author":"Aharon N. Varady","date":"January 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Amplified Harmonic Resonance, Playlist for Monday morning, 2009-01-05, programmer: dj Magical Adventures of Duffy Moon Year Artist Album Track No. Title 1970 John Cale & Terry Riley Church Of Anthrax 1 Church of Anthrax 1970 John Cale & Terry Riley Church Of Anthrax 2 The Hall of Mirrors in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Music"","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/category\/art\/music"},"img":{"alt_text":"Terry Riley Keyboard Study No. 2","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/terry-riley-keyboard-study-2.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1498,"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/05\/all-streams-one-source","url_meta":{"origin":31,"position":3},"title":"All Streams, One Source: Shesha and the Mystery of the Four-headed Shin","author":"Aharon N. Varady","date":"May 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A Midrash of the Jews of Yemen dating from the 13th century provides the following explanation for the mystery of the four-branched shin. There is one \"head\" for each of the following facets: cogitation, imagination, memory, and estimation.[ref]paraphrasing Midrash haBeur, translated in Yemenite Midrash: Philosophical Commentaries on the Torah, edited\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Music"","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/category\/art\/music"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/8245225690_15c0588051_b_905.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/8245225690_15c0588051_b_905.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/8245225690_15c0588051_b_905.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/8245225690_15c0588051_b_905.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136,"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2008\/06\/behemot-and-bahamut","url_meta":{"origin":31,"position":4},"title":"Behemot and Bahamut","author":"Aharon N. Varady","date":"June 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The umbilical cord of my omphalos winds its way back in time to the blessings of my mother and father, but also inwards and outside-of-time, stretching into a womb land that is all myth and dream and imagination. With some effort I can follow my way back into this makom,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/0074_baamout.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":796,"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2009\/12\/metaphors-liberate-us","url_meta":{"origin":31,"position":5},"title":"Metaphors Liberate Us","author":"Aharon N. Varady","date":"December 31, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In an age when the possibility of living in the land of Israel is no longer an abstract yearning, at a time when Jerusalem is rebuilt (with a soon to be active light rail system!), and after nearly 2000 years without the physical presence of a Temple nor the daily\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Mythology"","block_context":{"text":"Mythology","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/category\/yiddishkeit\/mythology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/first-light-of-freedom-e1483925040265.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}