{"id":5376,"date":"2007-07-21T15:45:45","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T20:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/2007\/07\/21\/further-evidence-of-the-decline-of-civilization\/"},"modified":"2007-07-21T15:45:45","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T20:45:45","slug":"further-evidence-of-the-decline-of-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/further-evidence-of-the-decline-of-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Further evidence of the decline of civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rode out to the gigantic shopping mall on the east side of town for the first time in over a year this afternoon. There used to be two bookstores there. Today I found none. There were plenty of shoe stores, though. One of my ideas of Hell is a huge, crowded, noisy mall without a bookstore, and there it is. I doubt that I&#8217;ll ever go there again. (There is a Barnes &#038; Noble nearby, but because of road destruction it is inaccessible to bicycles.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rode out to the gigantic shopping mall on the east side of town for the first time in over a year this afternoon. There used to be two bookstores there. Today I found none. There were plenty of shoe stores, though. One of my ideas of Hell is a huge, crowded, noisy mall without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/further-evidence-of-the-decline-of-civilization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Further evidence of the decline of civilization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1oI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}