{"id":585,"date":"2003-06-01T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2003-06-01T11:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/06\/01\/koyaanisqatsi.html"},"modified":"2003-06-01T11:37:43","modified_gmt":"2003-06-01T11:37:43","slug":"koyaanisqatsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/06\/01\/koyaanisqatsi.html","title":{"rendered":"Koyaanisqatsi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.koyaanisqatsi.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.koyaanisqatsi.org\/images\/koyyanisqatsi\/k2.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"150\" border=0 hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"><\/a>Twice i&#8217;ve flown into Chicago this week and twice i&#8217;ve flown out, having paid less attention to Chicago itself than its rich suburbs.  To my surprise, i even recognized the gas station upon the second entrance and knew where we were in the flight landing pattern.  I am in a complete state of awe concerning America.  To see suburbia through a aerial perspective is just mindblowing &#8211; the thought and consideration that went into rows and rows of identical homes in the idyllically planned suburban community.  It&#8217;s just a desire that i cannot truly comprehend &#8211; i am in awe.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, i encountered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koyaanisqatsi.org\/\">Koyaanisqatsi<\/a>.  This movie realizes all of the awe that i felt on that plane, showing the emotional struggle between the beauty and absurdity of American life.  Life out of balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice i&#8217;ve flown into Chicago this week and twice i&#8217;ve flown out, having paid less attention to Chicago itself than its rich suburbs. To my surprise, i even recognized the gas station upon the second entrance and knew where we were in the flight landing pattern. I am in a complete state of awe concerning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}