{"id":202,"date":"2008-10-17T04:47:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T09:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/?page_id=202"},"modified":"2014-03-24T01:11:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T08:11:21","slug":"the-tinkerer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/writing\/writing-2008\/the-tinkerer","title":{"rendered":"The Tinkerer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><em>By Martin Falatic<br \/>\nWritten 2008-10-26<br \/>\nRevised 2008-10-26<\/em><\/h5>\n<div class=\"hr\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>He slips a slender tool under the edge of the timepiece, parting the cover from the body and exposing the inner workings.\u00a0 The wheels, springs and gears move rhythmically as they tick away the moments.\u00a0 While some parts are worn by the passage of time, time is still marked accurately enough.\u00a0 The tinkerer is fascinated by the movements and pokes and prods the mechanism, pausing a gear here or tweaking a spring there.\u00a0 The mainspring stretches, a gear loses a tooth, and the ticking becomes slightly discordant.\u00a0 His curiosity builds, and he starts to remove pieces, methodically deconstructing the running watch until it is nothing more than a small pile of fine parts, motionless on his workbench.\u00a0 He learns nothing of what makes the watch tick and cannot hope to reassemble it.\u00a0 Sweeping the pieces away into the bin, he readies his tools for another attempt at an understanding of the vibrant whole that will never come from its broken parts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hr\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Falatic Written 2008-10-26 Revised 2008-10-26 He slips a slender tool under the edge of the timepiece, parting the cover from the body and exposing the inner workings.\u00a0 The wheels, springs and gears move rhythmically as they tick away the moments.\u00a0 While some parts are worn by the passage of time, time is still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":266,"menu_order":22,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-202","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}