{"id":28736,"date":"2016-02-04T12:08:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T20:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/?p=28736"},"modified":"2018-09-10T22:14:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T06:14:53","slug":"how-it-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/how-it-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"How It Ends: A Post-Apocalyptic Schubertiade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists speculate sometimes\u00a0that an asteroid impact would be what it would take to throw us all back into the Stone Age.\u00a0But no one ever imagined that the end of <em>Modernity<\/em> could actually turn out to be something much less dire.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it was a <em>coronal mass ejection\u00a0<\/em>that took down our power grids\u2014we lost all satellite communications, international travel, automated traffic systems, and Smart phones.<\/p>\n<p>Lacking what we&#8217;d known as modernity, we could do nothing but gather with our friends about the piano\u2026singing by candlelight.<\/p>\n<p>So, it was not a bang, nor a whimper. Instead of the <em>Stone Age<\/em>, we\u2019d been thrown into the <em>Biedermeier<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29134\" style=\"width: 521px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"mailto:contact@jasonhall.ca?subject=Writing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29134 size-full\" title=\"Post-apocalyptic Schubertiade\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Schubert-iPhone.png\" alt=\"Post-apocalyptic Schubertiade\" width=\"521\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;They all agreed that they could scarcely remember the time when ceaselessly checking their iPhones seemed so important.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists speculate sometimes\u00a0that an asteroid impact would be what it would take to throw us all back into the Stone Age.\u00a0But no one ever imagined that the end of Modernity could actually turn out to be something much less dire. In the end, it was a coronal mass ejection\u00a0that took down our power grids\u2014we lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[38,6,40,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28736"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29453,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28736\/revisions\/29453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}