{"id":1957,"date":"2014-08-06T09:17:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laoficinadeluis.com\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2020-12-06T21:21:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T21:21:59","slug":"juggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laoficinadeluis.com\/noviembre\/juggling\/","title":{"rendered":"Juggling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The light changed to red. As I stopped, a \nragged clown stepped in front of the car. With movements more hungry \nthan artistic he showed me his hands: nothing here, nothing there. He \ntook four small balls out of his pocket, lit them on fire, and tossed \nthem into the air. The fireballs leapt from \nhis asbestos hands over and over, not stopping or falling, faster and \nfaster, the flames growing hotter and more intense. They were four \ncomets in the same orbit, each following another\u2019s wake before biting \nits tail to create a perfect loop encircling infinity. The hole was \nblack for a moment but soon turned green. Swallowed by the light, I put \nmy foot down, hard, on the gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Translated for <a href=\"https:\/\/southsideweekly.com\/juggling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"South Side Weekly (abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\">South Side Weekly<\/a> by Rachel Schastok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short Story translated by Rachel Schastok<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"iawp_total_views":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narraciones"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laoficinadeluis.com\/noviembre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laoficinadeluis.com\/noviembre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laoficinadeluis.com\/noviembre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laoficinadeluis.com\/noviembre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laoficinadeluis.com\/noviembre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.laoficinadeluis.com\/noviembre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3851,"href":"https:\/\/www.laoficinadeluis.com\/noviembre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/3851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laoficinadeluis.com\/noviembre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laoficinadeluis.com\/noviembre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laoficinadeluis.com\/noviembre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}