{"id":317,"date":"2005-08-17T12:56:15","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T12:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2005-08-17T12:56:15","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T12:56:15","slug":"the_legacy_of_our_culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/08\/17\/the_legacy_of_our_culture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legacy of Our Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some news that will make the blood of moral crusader-types run cold: an Australian researcher has determined that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ninemsn.com.au\/article.aspx?id=58209\">nudie magazines are practically immortal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During an investigation into the rate at which wood-pulp products degrade in landfills, this intrepid scientist found that magazines with coated, glossy pages &#8212; the ones with lots of pictures, in other words &#8212; were the best preserved of all the printed matter he uncovered. A 1979 copy of <i>Playboy<\/i> was described as being in &#8220;near-mint condition&#8221; after decades in the dump. The smart-alecks at <a href=\"http:\/\/fark.com\/\">Fark<\/a> (quoted by the <i>other<\/i> smart-alecks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing<\/a>) say this means that &#8220;porn will be this civilization&#8217;s gift to the next civilization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, am I wicked for finding this impossibly droll?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some news that will make the blood of moral crusader-types run cold: an Australian researcher has determined that nudie magazines are practically immortal. During an investigation into the rate at which wood-pulp products degrade in landfills, this intrepid scientist found that magazines with coated, glossy pages &#8212; the ones with lots of pictures, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}