{"id":1371,"date":"2006-10-16T20:12:42","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T20:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2006-10-16T20:12:42","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T20:12:42","slug":"taking_the_long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"Taking The Long View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like to think about the impermanence of things; both on a personal and more macro level.&nbsp; Friends come and go, as do fashion trends, languages, nation-states, and even geological epochs.&nbsp; Nothing last forever, probably not even the human race.&nbsp; The New Scientist examines what would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/channel\/life\/mg19225731.100\">happen to the planet if humans suddenly disappeared<\/a>.&nbsp; After 100,000 years or so, very few traces of our existence would remain.&nbsp; I find this notion strangely comforting.&nbsp; We are a narcissistic species and it wouldn&#8217;t kill us to take a moment now and then to contemplate the universe&#8217;s unmistakable apathy regarding our continued presence.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to think about the impermanence of things; both on a personal and more macro level.&nbsp; Friends come and go, as do fashion trends, languages, nation-states, and even geological epochs.&nbsp; Nothing last forever, probably not even the human race.&nbsp; The New Scientist examines what would happen to the planet if humans suddenly disappeared.&nbsp; After <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1371' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-m7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}