{"id":490,"date":"2018-09-24T22:52:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T02:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/?p=490"},"modified":"2018-09-25T07:44:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T11:44:01","slug":"transience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/2018\/09\/24\/transience\/","title":{"rendered":"TRANSIENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-483 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-08-abst-01s-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-08-abst-01s-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-08-abst-01s-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-08-abst-01s-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-08-abst-01s-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-08-abst-01s-1120x1120.jpg 1120w, http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-08-abst-01s.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nIn youth We were collectors,<br \/>\nalways an eagle eye out for rare and special things:<br \/>\nbooks and records, art and artifacts,<br \/>\nexpressions of holy nature.<br \/>\nArt was our Ore,<br \/>\nto refine with our lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nowaday<br \/>\nwe are washed in a river,<br \/>\na cataract of art and media,<br \/>\nanything you can name available at a click.<br \/>\n<em>What is rare now?<\/em><br \/>\n(besides quiet)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This digital river is ephemeral, insubstantial.<br \/>\nIt is built on the web of the day.<br \/>\nOne day that web may be a cobweb,<br \/>\nones and zeroes as good as zeroes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The likelihood of a crisis<\/em><br \/>\n<em>big enough to knock down industrys tower<\/em><br \/>\n<em>is high! A<\/em><em>dmit it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What is rare and fragile and wonderful<br \/>\nis worth saving, and savoring<br \/>\nwith tongues of different times and other climes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What will you leave your successors<br \/>\nafter the computers are gone?<br \/>\nWhat will survive?<br \/>\nWhat will still serve in an altered world?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Make Real Things.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Make Things Real.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In youth We were collectors, always an eagle eye out for rare and special things: books and records, art and artifacts, expressions of holy nature. Art was our Ore, to refine with our lives. Nowaday we are washed in a river, a cataract of art and media, anything you can name available at a click.&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"simppeli-read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/2018\/09\/24\/transience\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TRANSIENCE<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9EaEv-7U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}