{"id":2716,"date":"2013-12-01T12:21:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T18:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2013-12-07T22:04:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T04:04:16","slug":"the-red-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=2716","title":{"rendered":"The Red Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Poem written after grandchildren&#8217;s visit last summer.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2717 alignleft\" alt=\"red book\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/red-book-625x468.jpg\" width=\"305\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/red-book-625x468.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/red-book-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/red-book-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2718\" alt=\"IMG_6058\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6058-625x468.jpg\" width=\"391\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6058-625x468.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6058-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6058-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Carl Jung\u2019s Red Book<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">A tome of heft and detail<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Rich with symbolism and complexity<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Created in the final years of his life,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The intricate detail and explanations \u2013<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Flowering of his mind and active imagination<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Illustrating the consciousness of<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">His unconscious.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It will take months for me to<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Attempt an understanding.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">Today, used to weigh down<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">A dagger,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Made by a small boy<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">In place of the real dagger<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">His mother would not let him have.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">A silver blade with Mayan chief<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Scanned and printed<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Colored with glitter glue<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Pasted on cardboard<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Weighed down by <i>The Red Book<\/i> overnight,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Bonding.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Then carefully cut to create another dagger<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">This one \u201csafe\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But representative of the real one<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">From Panama,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Carried home by his great-grandfather<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">After the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Jung would have approved.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><i>August 3, 2013<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem written after grandchildren&#8217;s visit last summer. &nbsp; Carl Jung\u2019s Red Book A tome of heft and detail Rich with symbolism and complexity Created in the final years of his life, The intricate detail and explanations \u2013 Flowering of his mind and active imagination Illustrating the consciousness of His unconscious. It will take months for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}