{"id":37,"date":"2011-02-22T01:39:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T01:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obscurityanddecay.com\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2011-02-22T03:47:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T03:47:13","slug":"a-mission-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/obscurityanddecay.com\/?page_id=37","title":{"rendered":"A Mission Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A letter to our forebears\u2026We, The Current Generation, stuck in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century, by fate and not by choice, are like the carrion birds who have  come to peck at and pick at, to feast and feed on the most delicious  cultural carcasses we can find left behind by you, the original  destroyers of such, as discarded at curb, thrift store and flea market.  While you choke down your equivalent to cultural soylent green , we  prefer to continue to eat <em>real food<\/em>, rare though it may  be to find. We come to savor what we can only partially know, digest it,  and make it a part of our very being. <em>You<\/em> enjoyed it fresh. <em>We<\/em> dine on your often-fetid leftovers and <em>love it<\/em>. For it is all we have ever known, and all we can ever know. For the alternative is just not acceptable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_63\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/obscurityanddecay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DSC01348.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63\" title=\"My Birds\" src=\"http:\/\/obscurityanddecay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DSC01348-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"My Birds\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/obscurityanddecay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DSC01348-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/obscurityanddecay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DSC01348-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/obscurityanddecay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DSC01348.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Birds<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter to our forebears\u2026We, The Current Generation, stuck in the 21st Century, by fate and not by choice, are like the carrion birds who have come to peck at and pick at, to feast and feed on the most delicious cultural carcasses we can find left behind by you, the original destroyers of such, <a href=\"https:\/\/obscurityanddecay.com\/?page_id=37\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obscurityanddecay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obscurityanddecay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obscurityanddecay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obscurityanddecay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obscurityanddecay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/obscurityanddecay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/obscurityanddecay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obscurityanddecay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}