{"id":225,"date":"2012-04-25T23:32:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2012-04-25T23:32:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:32:50","slug":"cartomancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Cartomancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Architecture holds power. It is not a new theory, of course. One only needs to look to the pyramids, or Stonehenge, to see that. But we have come a long way since then. Monolithic sigils are so ancient-world. We have been scribing entire spells and power-circles for centuries &#8211; the canals of Venice, the alleyways of Florence, the streets of London. (That one is of particular note, I feel, as it has been edited and rewritten so many times.) The one that still floors me to this day, however, is the subway and metro lines of Tokyo. Written in half a dozen hands, charm upon ritual scrawled chaotically with a meticulous rigor. I have traced its tracks &#8211; ridden circle lines and express trains and rush hour locals &#8211; but I am only just beginning to understand its meaning and its purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Architecture holds power. It is not a new theory, of course. One only needs to look to the pyramids, or Stonehenge, to see that. But we have come a long way since then. Monolithic sigils are so ancient-world. We have been scribing entire spells and power-circles for centuries &#8211; the canals of Venice, the alleyways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}