{"id":78,"date":"2012-05-31T00:26:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T00:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholasroy.net\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2014-01-05T15:56:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T15:56:05","slug":"a-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicoleroy.net\/blog\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"A Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world still looked the same, but it was different<br \/>\nHe walked from the gym, back to where he parked his car<br \/>\nThere were still cars here, and people, dirt and beauty<br \/>\nHe could smell the bar-b-que cooking down the street<\/p>\n<p>It was the same old world, but the underpinnings of it had been replaced in the night<br \/>\nEveryone was talking to themselves &#8211; no, they were talking to thin air<br \/>\nBut the thin air was everyone else<\/p>\n<p>The old rules faded into the background, burning away like ground fog at 6 o&#8217;clock on a sunny spring morning<\/p>\n<p>The guts of the plane had been changed while the plane was in flight<br \/>\nThe re-tooling of the world system had taken place before anything could have been done<\/p>\n<p>At every point on the curve, it looks like the curve is going straight up from here<br \/>\nBut things still seem pretty normal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world still looked the same, but it was different He walked from the gym, back to where he parked his car There were still cars here, and people, dirt and beauty He could smell the bar-b-que cooking down the street It was the same old world, but the underpinnings of it had been replaced &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nicoleroy.net\/blog\/?p=78\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Shift&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[198,190,191],"tags":[103,104,96,102],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-realities","category-creative-writing-2","category-poetry-creative-writing-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-singularity","tag-social-change"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8dkOC-1g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicoleroy.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicoleroy.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicoleroy.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicoleroy.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicoleroy.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nicoleroy.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/nicoleroy.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicoleroy.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicoleroy.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicoleroy.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}