{"id":34757,"date":"2019-06-07T10:11:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/?p=34757"},"modified":"2019-06-10T00:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T07:11:20","slug":"discourses-on-an-alien-sky-41-the-labyrinth-and-the-gordion-knot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/2019\/06\/07\/discourses-on-an-alien-sky-41-the-labyrinth-and-the-gordion-knot\/","title":{"rendered":"Discourses on an Alien Sky #41 | The Labyrinth and the Gordian Knot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oSYMAh_OWuc\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Discourse David Talbott extends his review of the ancient \u201clabyrinth&#8221; theme, suggesting that a concrete explanation could lie within our reach:  &#8220;It should go without saying that, in the absence of a concrete referent, such storytelling will appear to have no believable interpretation. But if we tentatively grant the presence of a natural provocation in the ancient sky, the story elements will be EXPECTED, even when a self-serving local variant fails to convince us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Become a Producer through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/tboltsproject\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PATREON<\/a> Rewards program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/ETy41\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thunderbolts Update<\/a> weekly newsletter! Catch all the weekly happenings in one place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Discourse David Talbott extends his review of the ancient \u201clabyrinth&#8221; theme, suggesting that a concrete explanation could lie within our reach: &#8220;It should go without saying that, in the absence of a concrete referent, such storytelling will appear to have no believable interpretation. But if we tentatively grant&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/2019\/06\/07\/discourses-on-an-alien-sky-41-the-labyrinth-and-the-gordion-knot\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":34749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mm"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"The Thunderbolts Project\u2122","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34764,"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34757\/revisions\/34764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thunderbolts.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}