{"id":1778,"date":"2022-10-15T12:59:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T11:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2022-10-15T13:03:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T12:03:54","slug":"a-whimper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2022\/10\/15\/a-whimper\/","title":{"rendered":"A Whimper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">I have of late \nlost all my faith \nin \u201ctaste\u201d of either savor: \ngustate \nor aesthete.&nbsp;<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Darwin\u2019s \u201cproximal \nstimulus\u201d \nis  just \nthe Siren\u2019s Song \nthat \nfrom the start \ninspired \nthe genes and memes \nof our superior \nrace \nto pummel this promontory \ninto \nfor all but the insensate \na land of waste.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2018\/07\/cropped-orang1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2018\/07\/cropped-orang1-1.jpg 512w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2018\/07\/cropped-orang1-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2018\/07\/cropped-orang1-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2018\/07\/cropped-orang1-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2018\/07\/cropped-orang1-1-270x270.jpg 270w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2018\/07\/cropped-orang1-1-192x192.jpg 192w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2018\/07\/cropped-orang1-1-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2018\/07\/cropped-orang1-1-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have of late lost all my faith in \u201ctaste\u201d of either savor: gustate or aesthete.&nbsp; Darwin\u2019s \u201cproximal stimulus\u201d is just the Siren\u2019s Song that from the start inspired the genes and memes of our superior race to pummel this promontory into for all but the insensate a land of waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,82,119,1,7],"tags":[12,25],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-reflections","category-sentience","category-uncategorised","category-verse","tag-ethics","tag-sentience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}