{"id":407,"date":"2013-01-16T10:11:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T23:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2013-01-16T10:11:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T23:11:19","slug":"detritus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Detritus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following began life as a Facebook comment, which then somehow turned into a manifesto. So I guess it belongs here too?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While shuffling rooms around at home, I had to PICK UP and move FOUR boxes of audio cassettes to a place that WAS NOT the GARBAGE BIN.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;know how it sucks when you&#8217;re moving house, and you&#8217;re packing up bookshelves and thinking &#8220;Ugh, the last time I even touched these books was when I was unpacking them after moving in here,&#8221;? How much more for cassette tapes, a technology invented to solve a problem that NO LONGER EXISTS, a medium that cannot be played-back by any device in our possession, a lossy simulacrum of music we once enjoyed and yet now scarcely remember.<\/p>\n<p>Dear readers, shed these dusty media tombs. Free yourselves from the entirely self-inflicted burden of nostalgia, and make space in your storage room for some other useless piece of life&#8217;s detritus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following began life as a Facebook comment, which then somehow turned into a manifesto. So I guess it belongs here too? While shuffling rooms around at home, I had to PICK UP and move FOUR boxes of audio cassettes to a place that WAS NOT the GARBAGE BIN. Y&#8217;know how it sucks when you&#8217;re &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=407\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Detritus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}