{"id":2597,"date":"2007-03-07T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T23:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2014-01-19T22:07:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T21:07:29","slug":"containing-knowledge-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2007\/03\/07\/containing-knowledge-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Containing Knowledge I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>All knowledge is contained.<\/i> Each box enclosed<br \/>By bone, or paper, or HTML<br \/>Constrains the facts inside it all too well,<br \/>And separates things better juxtaposed.<br \/>For knowledge is inert until it&#8217;s mixed,<br \/>Until the facts spill out, and we compare<br \/>Our unrelated notions, stop and stare,<br \/>Assumptions overturned, at truth unfixed.<br \/>The way papyrus rolled and vellum curled,<br \/>The spread of trade as social classes changed:<br \/>These unrelated facts, when well arranged,<br \/>Can show us not just books, but all the world.<br \/>And thus the knowledge that appeals to me<br \/>Is uncontained, and unconstrained, and free.<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/008724.html\">Making Light<\/a>, part of a meditation on books and knowledge (starting at comment 135).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All knowledge is contained. Each box enclosedBy bone, or paper, or HTMLConstrains the facts inside it all too well,And separates things better juxtaposed.For knowledge is inert until it&#8217;s mixed,Until the facts spill out, and we compareOur unrelated notions, stop and stare,Assumptions overturned, at truth unfixed.The way papyrus rolled and vellum curled,The spread of trade as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2007\/03\/07\/containing-knowledge-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Containing Knowledge I<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,138],"tags":[1613],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookbinding","category-sonnets","tag-bookbinding-tag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}