{"id":12372,"date":"2008-12-19T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T08:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/miasmata.html"},"modified":"2008-12-19T08:30:21","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T08:30:21","slug":"miasmata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/12\/19\/miasmata.html","title":{"rendered":"Miasmata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My soul left my body, bolting toward the ceiling and burrowing in the corner up there. <\/p>\n<p>My cold body&nbsp; lay on the bed thinking &quot;just stay still until it comes back. We want to be exactly where the soul left us or it will get lost and enter the desk or the table.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>My soul was a naked beast &mdash; armless, legless, headless &mdash; consumed by a panic both directionless and incoherent. <\/p>\n<p>I knew it would return, and it did. Souls are lost without vessels in which to travel, even inferior vessels like mine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_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":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saumAn-miasmata","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}