{"id":3126,"date":"2013-08-27T19:45:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T19:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=3126"},"modified":"2022-12-22T12:27:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T17:27:16","slug":"the-second-person","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/the-second-person\/","title":{"rendered":"The Second Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Second-Person-Cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3097\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Second-Person-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"The Second Person Cover\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Second-Person-Cover.jpg 195w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Second-Person-Cover-146x225.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">paper \u2022 75 pages \u2022 14.95<br \/>\nISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-884800-76-4<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu\/Cart2\/Chicagobook?ISBN=9781884800764&amp;PRESS=fourway\" data-color=\" data-color-hover=\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Add to Cart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/column]<\/p>\n<h1><em>The Second Person<\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>C. Dale Young<\/h2>\n<p>The Architects of Time<\/p>\n<p>had grown to love absence,<br \/>\nand so, the lot had to be vacant<br \/>\nexcept for the lone tree.<br \/>\nThe first, on arrival, would<\/p>\n<p>throw his hands up, reaffirm<br \/>\nthat with a gesture he could<br \/>\nreturn the leaves to the branches.<br \/>\nAnother, tired from the journey,<\/p>\n<p>would lie down<br \/>\nand, closing his eyes, hasten<br \/>\nthe demise of the locusts.<br \/>\nIt was always the same.<\/p>\n<p>A week, a century, the empty lot.<br \/>\nThe last architect, the great<br \/>\nphilosopher, was late as usual\u2014<br \/>\nwhen they talked about the end,<\/p>\n<p>he would laugh and remind them<br \/>\nthey were now at the mercy<br \/>\nof the scientists, without whom<br \/>\nthe architects would cease to exist.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/c-dale-young\/ \" data-color=\"#ffffff\" data-color-hover=\"#efefef\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\">About the Author<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;] paper \u2022 75 pages \u2022 14.95 ISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-884800-76-4 Add to Cart [\/column] The Second Person C. Dale Young The Architects of Time had grown to love absence, and so, the lot had to be vacant except for the lone tree. The first, on arrival, would throw his hands up, reaffirm that with a gesture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3126","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18876,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3126\/revisions\/18876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}