{"id":17604,"date":"2019-02-07T09:43:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17604"},"modified":"2019-02-07T09:43:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T17:43:07","slug":"on-dragons-and-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2019\/02\/07\/on-dragons-and-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"On dragons and flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>In Delany\u2019s world of Nev\u00e8r\u00ffon, dragons can glide if they jump from a ledge, but they can\u2019t take off from the ground. In the opening chapter of <cite>Nevery\u00f3na<\/cite>, fifteen-year-old Pryn has just flown on dragonback, but the dragon landed in a clearing instead of on a ledge, so it won\u2019t be able to take off again from here. The tale-teller Norema tells Pryn:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\u201cUntie your dragon and let her wander into the mountains where she belongs. Left to herself, she\u2019ll find the ledges she needs, as you must too\u2014but you can\u2019t be tied down with dragons that won\u2019t fly where you want to go, no matter how much fun the notion of flight.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commonplace-book"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17605,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17604\/revisions\/17605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}