{"id":3701,"date":"2012-03-09T19:44:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T23:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2012-03-09T19:44:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T23:44:15","slug":"friday-evening-liminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/03\/09\/friday-evening-liminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday evening &#8211; liminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liminal.. I&#8217;ve always loved that word.. but never used it.. I\u00a0 first remember coming across it many years ago in\u00a0 a in a novel by A. S. Byatt It means&#8221;barely perceptible&#8221;\u00a0 or &#8220;relating to the point (or threshold) beyond which a sensation becomes too faint to be experienced&#8221;..\u00a0\u00a0 W experience the word in &#8220;subliminal&#8217; as in &#8216;below perception&#8221;.. but who gives much thought to that point at which something transitions above subliminal to&#8230; to what ? To Liminal.. hard to put your finger on it, but that&#8217;s the whole point of &#8216;liminal&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That whole riff\u00a0 was going through my mind\u00a0 today as I was taking a left turn out of work across moving traffic. I was looking right and <em>thought<\/em> I saw a small tear in the fabric of reality.. it was like a curtain fluttering at the edge of my vision.. like the whole idea of Essex Junction Vermont had been spray painted on a screen.. and I was seeing behind it..\u00a0\u00a0 I made my turn.. met my friends for lunch.. but.. I&#8217;m still here wondering what it is I saw or didn&#8217;t see..<\/p>\n<p>I always wonder what it&#8217;s like in other people&#8217;s heads.. is it like this ?<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liminal.. I&#8217;ve always loved that word.. but never used it.. I\u00a0 first remember coming across it many years ago in\u00a0 a in a novel by A. S. Byatt It means&#8221;barely perceptible&#8221;\u00a0 or &#8220;relating to the point (or threshold) beyond which a sensation becomes too faint to be experienced&#8221;..\u00a0\u00a0 W experience the word in &#8220;subliminal&#8217; as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/03\/09\/friday-evening-liminal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday evening &#8211; liminal<\/span> <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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[435],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-liminal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3703,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}