{"id":552,"date":"2026-10-17T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=552"},"modified":"2026-10-17T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:46:11","slug":"alchemical-inventions-homunculus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/17\/alchemical-inventions-homunculus\/","title":{"rendered":"Alchemical Inventions: Homunculus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alchemical Inventions: Homunculus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let waste of creation ferment forty days<br>and see me, yet see through me<br>still. Fast forty weeks to feed me,<br>make me solid. What is your will?<br>I&#8217;m skilled in arts mundane and arcane<br>to generate songs, riches, servants, lovers, wisdom.<br>I&#8217;m all you need. I&#8217;m your world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em><em>Bryant Jacobi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><strong>Note on form:<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;This is a form I call the<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em>splenetick:<em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>seven lines, seven words per line, content satirical.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Halloween 2026, Day 17<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let waste of creation ferment forty days \/ and see me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[63,69,10,71],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-2026","tag-halloween-2026","tag-poetic-forms","tag-poetry","tag-splenetick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}