{"id":4672,"date":"2021-01-04T07:05:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T07:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=145795"},"modified":"2021-01-04T07:05:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T07:05:06","slug":"the-invisible-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/04\/the-invisible-shepherd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Shepherd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Invisible Shepherd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Happy Twenty Twenty-one<br \/>We need to hit the pharmacy<br \/>and pick up some free calendars \u2014<br \/>the word you know\u2019s from Latin<br \/>calendarium, account book<br \/>that\u2019s a book of debts<br \/>and book\u2019s from beech<br \/>the tree of death \u2014 but, seriously<br \/>Economy, the Nomos, springs<br \/>Instead from trees of dogma<br \/>All of which\u2019ll grow into a labyrinth<br \/>An invisible shepherd<br \/>That shepherds you through \u2014<br \/>Nomos, from nemein, land capture<br \/>For pasture<br \/>The nomeus, the shepherd, is a colonizer<br \/>Exploiter of earth and sheep alike<br \/>Spreader of strife, and disease,<br \/>Polluting and looting<br \/>Your skin, your eyes<br \/>The other tree, of Physis,<br \/>Is the tree of life, the tree of ease<br \/>Whose leaves, says John of Patmos,<br \/>Are the medicine of the people<br \/>And just as Nomos pollutes the land<br \/>And poisons skies and seas<br \/>Physis, physician, the healer, as the remedy<br \/>Spreads ease and frees<br \/>This desecrated Eden<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/04\/the-invisible-shepherd\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Invisible Shepherd Happy Twenty Twenty-oneWe need to hit the pharmacyand pick up some free calendars \u2014the word you know\u2019s from Latincalendarium, account bookthat\u2019s a book of debtsand\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions\/4673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}