{"id":54,"date":"2013-06-09T13:31:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T20:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2022-11-22T13:17:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T21:17:52","slug":"blog-post-no-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post No. 3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WAR-MART1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65 alignleft\" alt=\"WAR-MART\" src=\"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WAR-MART1-251x300.jpeg\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WAR-MART1-251x300.jpeg 251w, http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WAR-MART1-860x1024.jpeg 860w, http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WAR-MART1.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What is the Point of Poverty! There are just four pages left in my present little peasant moleskine journal, but have I written or drawn anything worthy of transcription or publication? Dear God, the more I pack into these little journals the less might actually appear\u2014if that is possible\u2014to return what began as a blank page back to its original obverse emptiness!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Three-Chimneys.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74 alignright\" alt=\"Three Chimneys\" src=\"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Three-Chimneys.jpg\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\"><\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;All hail the Blog! Blog must go on! Yes, for this is <i>not<\/i> my journal anymore, but the third actual blog post to establish Global Link Sausages: You never sausage a place! A concatenation of like-minds resonating in perfect fugal dynamix! O.k., I may be reaching, yes, but that <i>is<\/i> the point, is it not? I <i>am<\/i> reaching out! We may be the 99%, but <i>percentages<\/i> don\u2019t matter anymore because <i>math,<\/i> as-we-know-it, is over, this is the \u201cAfterMath\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/San-Carlos-20th-St..jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58 alignleft\" alt=\"San Carlos &amp; 20th St.\" src=\"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/San-Carlos-20th-St.-186x300.jpg\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/San-Carlos-20th-St.-186x300.jpg 186w, http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/San-Carlos-20th-St.-637x1024.jpg 637w, http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/San-Carlos-20th-St..jpg 1363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*(Politix, all-4-1! Once &amp; for all! May I never mention \u201cpolitix\u201d in this context again!)<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the journals were almost running on \u201cempty\u201d by now, running on fumes, but the blog goes on to infinity, until we have our own \u201cAmerican Spring And All\u201d. It\u2019s not too late, it is merely the end of the beginning!<\/p>\n<p>Spare us all from the depraved polarity of that word, \u201cpolitix\u201d! We are all so much better than this. We are all together so much more than sum of our parts! In our hearts, like William Guitarlos Williams\u2019, &#8220;Spring and All&#8221;, it is all that we are and we who know this now, know that the jig is up&#8230; This is the purpose of this s-p-a-c-e&#8230; This is why I\u2019ve begun this Blog, because we are tired of the nonsense of rhetoric &amp; rivalry &amp; road-rage of the ages&#8230; bereft of sages&#8230; or at least deaf to their circumambience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Zsuzsi-in-Kitchen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56 alignright\" alt=\"Zsuzsi in Kitchen\" src=\"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Zsuzsi-in-Kitchen-219x300.jpg\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Zsuzsi-in-Kitchen-219x300.jpg 219w, http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Zsuzsi-in-Kitchen-750x1024.jpg 750w, http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Zsuzsi-in-Kitchen-624x851.jpg 624w, http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Zsuzsi-in-Kitchen.jpg 1648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to get off track, though I\u2019m not sure it is possible or even avoidable, as long as we persevere&#8230; We cannot fail to see the forests through the manhole covers and hubcaps of the city. We are <em>here<\/em> and this is our city too, not just the real estate mongers and voracious bankers and investors. This is The City, this is the Blog and I\u2019m Jack <em>Web<\/em>. It\u2019s all <i>related<\/i>, it\u2019s about everything that concerns us and some things which don\u2019t, all of it, like my favorite book of poetry this year, \u201cThe Best Of It\u201d, by Kay Ryan. O.k. I think I veered off track, but really, check her out. She\u2019s great!<\/p>\n<p>I am sort of re-creating my journals in this effort to blog, but they&#8217;re distilled and broken-down, atomized, amalgamated, incorporated&#8230; <em>Write<\/em> now I am listening to another of my favorites: \u201cShing Kee\u201d by Carl Stone from his album, \u201cMom\u2019s\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Please remain in touch&#8230; stay close, as I can only get so much of this out at a time. It feels like giving birth or something, not that eye wood no, knot that I could possibly know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve posted this now, before Post No. 2, but I don\u2019t think it matters in the stream of things&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; What is the Point of Poverty! There are just four pages left in my present little peasant moleskine journal, but have I written or drawn anything worthy of transcription or publication? Dear God, the more I pack into these little journals the less might actually appear\u2014if that is possible\u2014to return what began as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomstolmar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}