{"id":448,"date":"2013-09-19T07:59:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T07:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2013\/09\/19\/when-the-last-song-has-been-sung-and-all-the\/"},"modified":"2013-09-19T07:59:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T07:59:47","slug":"when-the-last-song-has-been-sung-and-all-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/09\/19\/when-the-last-song-has-been-sung-and-all-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When the last song has been sung and all the artists have left; when the tourists stop coming because paradise has become too transparently exclusive; when the last tuna dies and floats to the surface for no purpose but to better camouflage our trash; when the last expatriate slave has broken free of the chains of supreme hypocrisy and when the youth have lost the last of their tolerance over-dosing on hope; the vultures will turn inwards towards familiar flesh and with bewildered breath the pious fence sitters will ask, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t anyone tell us our culture was dying a slow death?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ehentha.tumblr.com\/\">ehentha<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the last song has been sung and all the artists have left; when the tourists stop coming because paradise has become too transparently exclusive; when the last tuna dies and floats to the surface for no purpose but to better camouflage our trash; when the last expatriate slave has broken free of the chains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-7e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}