{"id":1629,"date":"2024-09-29T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:01:56","slug":"the-gossamer-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/?p=1629","title":{"rendered":"The gossamer thread"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:100.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2907.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2907.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2907.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2907.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1200&#038;ssl=1 1200w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2907.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1500&#038;ssl=1 1500w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2907.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1800&#038;ssl=1 1800w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2907.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=2000&#038;ssl=1 2000w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"3024\" data-id=\"1734\" data-link=\"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/?attachment_id=1734\" data-url=\"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2907.jpg\" data-width=\"4032\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2907.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The island hangs on a delicate thread of light suspended in eternity &#8211; a metaphor for life? (with a nod to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/1009788-the-cradle-rocks-above-an-abyss-and-common-sense-tells\">Nabokov<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The island hangs on a delicate thread of light suspended in eternity &#8211; a metaphor for life? (with a nod to Nabokov)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2907.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwang.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}