{"id":355,"date":"2018-09-10T01:27:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T01:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=355"},"modified":"2018-08-06T01:30:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T01:30:53","slug":"dilation-of-time-by-sem-megson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/09\/10\/dilation-of-time-by-sem-megson\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilation of Time by Sem Megson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>A graduate of the University of Toronto, Sem Megson\u2019s work has been published in American, British and Canadian literary journals and produced by theatres in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, and London, England. For more information, visit <a class=\"sbm-text link link-color accessible-link\" href=\"http:\/\/semmegson.com\/\" target=\"linked\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">semmegson.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Dilation of Time<\/h3>\n<p>Languid words in Einstein\u2019s book claimed time<br \/>\nrushes faster away from a source of gravity,<br \/>\nas if lovers hadn\u2019t written of relativity first<br \/>\nthat an hour spins past itself when they\u2019re apart<br \/>\nand slows its hands when they\u2019re together.<br \/>\nThe theory of dripping moments didn\u2019t begin<br \/>\nwith time is distance divided by velocity,<br \/>\nbut longing is distance multiplied by desire.<br \/>\nUnderstood by romantics without an equation,<br \/>\nthey intuited the law a scientist proposed:<br \/>\nA body contracts in the direction of motion<br \/>\nmeasured by the affections of an observer<br \/>\nuntil their diverted libido begins to approach<br \/>\nthe speed of light where all promises obliterate.<br \/>\nSo a dilation of time describes the differences<br \/>\nsensed by two within a gravitational field,<br \/>\nyet it cannot explain why their yearning exists<br \/>\nto travel back and forth to each other in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A graduate of the University of Toronto, Sem Megson\u2019s work has been published in American, British and Canadian literary journals and produced by theatres in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, and London, England. For more information, visit semmegson.com. &nbsp; Dilation of Time Languid words in Einstein\u2019s book claimed time rushes faster away from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/09\/10\/dilation-of-time-by-sem-megson\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-5J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}