{"id":206,"date":"2005-07-04T19:22:18","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T03:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=206"},"modified":"2005-07-04T19:22:18","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T03:22:18","slug":"flag-on-the-fourth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/04\/flag-on-the-fourth\/","title":{"rendered":"Flag on the Fourth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a flag we put out on holidays, and there it was, up at dawn.  A gentle symbol here in the leafy village of Los Perros.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/flaghouse.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Long may it wave!  It&#039;s &#8220;our&#8221; flag too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/flagwave.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Quote from my 2002 journals, in Paris: I keep working on this new mental exercise of becoming coherent, of being in a mixed state, of existing in multiple parallel universes, and that feels very good.  Walking in the Latin Quarter, looking at some smoke from a chimney against the sky, not naming it, just seeing it, letting its motions move within my mind, I realize I&rsquo;m no different than a computer screen showing a two-dimensional cellular automaton, with the smoke like a touch-cursor dragged across my brain.  I am entangled with the smoke.  I am coherent, but my coherence includes the smoke, I have joined the system, merged it into me.  Like the old koan, Q: I see a flag is blowing in wind: is the flag moving or is the wind moving?  A: My mind is moving.  Finally I get it, a nice moment of aha, a satori in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/rudyflag.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>In pyjamas, reflected in a hubcap that Rudy Jr. found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a flag we put out on holidays, and there it was, up at dawn. A gentle symbol here in the leafy village of Los Perros. Long may it wave! It&#039;s &#8220;our&#8221; flag too. Quote from my 2002 journals, in Paris: I keep working on this new mental exercise of becoming coherent, of being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}