{"id":20786,"date":"2019-02-09T22:15:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T03:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20786"},"modified":"2019-02-09T22:16:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T03:16:34","slug":"time-machine-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20786","title":{"rendered":"Time machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I’ve been pushing forward on a massive clean-up of my apartment. This Sisyphean task is far more than a single week’s work, but this past week I’ve made some real progress.<\/p>\n

It has felt like traveling back in a time machine. And in the course of operating that time machine I’ve made some real discoveries.<\/p>\n

Well, more like archaeological finds. Here, for example, hidden in the zippered inner pocket of a pair of pants I clearly had not worn in a very very long time, was a genuine NYC subway token:<\/p>\n

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I brought the token to our lab to show around, and most people there had absolutely no idea what it was. I found that fact to be equal parts delightful and horrifying.<\/p>\n

As William Faulkner once said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past. It’s just stuck in the back of your closet.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week I’ve been pushing forward on a massive clean-up of my apartment. This Sisyphean task is far more than a single week’s work, but this past week I’ve made some real progress. It has felt like traveling back in a time machine. And in the course of operating that time machine I’ve made some … Continue reading “Time machine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20791,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20786\/revisions\/20791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}