{"id":9032,"date":"2007-05-16T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9032"},"modified":"2007-05-16T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T16:07:00","slug":"minimalism-and-its-discontents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9032","title":{"rendered":"Minimalism and its Discontents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone is still reading this trainwreck, please note that I&#8217;ll be posting very lightly over the next couple of days.&nbsp; Tomorrow morning I  travel south for a court date arising from  my unfortunate run-ins with a certain former &#8220;you-knee-verse-it-tee&#8221; teacher (or, if you prefer, &#8220;non-tenured pee-ache-dee!&#8221;), so today I have to pore over old screen shots and the like.&nbsp;  I&#8217;ll be gone the entire day tomorrow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo, if some of you with access wish to take up the slack, please feel free.&nbsp; Otherwise, we can simply regard the blank space with ironic detachment&#8212;which, now that I think about it, might not be such a bad plan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf I can figure out a way to frame it and get it into a Soho gallery, I can probably make a mint.&nbsp;  I&#8217;ll call it &#8220;Totalitarianism&#8217;s Lament&#8221;&#8212;you know, play to those wealthy postmodern art aficionados who like to rake their eyes over urine-dunked crucifixes and dung paintings while simultaneously decrying the fascism of a Christian Conservative Nation that keeps them, well, <i>decrying fascism<\/i> in wine-drenched chat circles at Soho galleries (where, not coincidentally, my piece should bring in a boatload of hipster ka-ching!).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOf course, I&#8217;d have to change my name.&nbsp; But it might be kinda cool going around calling myself &#8220;Trout Fishing in America, Shorty.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJust spitballing here, though.\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone is still reading this trainwreck, please note that I&#8217;ll be posting very lightly over the next couple of days.&nbsp; Tomorrow morning I travel south for a court date arising from my unfortunate run-ins with a certain former &#8220;you-knee-verse-it-tee&#8221; teacher (or, if you prefer, &#8220;non-tenured pee-ache-dee!&#8221;), so today I have to pore over old screen shots and the like.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be gone the entire day tomorrow. So, if some<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9032\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9196393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}