{"id":9401,"date":"2025-12-24T15:39:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=9401"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:39:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:39:57","slug":"incarnations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2025\/12\/24\/incarnations\/","title":{"rendered":"Incarnations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

I wish I had a little more money, but I don’t wish it very hard. <\/p>\n

I used to wish that I had someone in my life, especially early on, that wanted and supported what was right for the real me (as opposed to wanting what was Best), and sometimes I still do, but that’s (mostly) a willfully dumb indulgence on my part. <\/p>\n

Instead, for my new year resolution thing, I’m going to just start wishing that next time I come back, it is as a real boy among the reindeer, and that, even now, this hopelessly deep into civilized times, that they will carry my shelter on a sled, and feed me their own flesh, in caloric emergencies. Take me home, dear real-life Blitzen and Donner Party, to a place where there is no comfort, but only pure glacial melt to drink, and where there are still … wild herds. <\/p>\n

The Coldest Place on Earth<\/a><\/p>\n

I have about as much faith in reincarnation as I do in God, and that’s not a lot.<\/p>\n

But even an old boy can dream. <\/p>\n

This is my choice, for dreaming on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wish I had a little more money, but I don’t wish it very hard. I used to wish that I had someone in my life, especially early on, that wanted and supported what was right for the real me (as opposed to wanting what was Best), and sometimes I still do, but that’s (mostly) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9404,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401\/revisions\/9404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}