{"id":218,"date":"2010-11-15T06:24:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=218"},"modified":"2013-06-18T21:06:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T02:06:20","slug":"driving-through-bar-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/driving-through-bar-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving Through Bar Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.istockphoto.com\/file_closeup\/nature\/landscapes\/7795411-treeline.php?id=7795411\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.istockphoto.com\/file_thumbview_approve\/7795411\/2\/istockphoto_7795411-treeline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ian&#8217;s driving along seeing barcodes<br \/>\nIn the stands of denuded trees<!--more--><br \/>\nAlong the road<br \/>\n&#8230;I wonder what they say?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m dreaming of planting telephone poles<br \/>\nIn the desert<br \/>\nTo spell out love poems<br \/>\nIn Morse code<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Or waking to find monoliths<br \/>\nOn the National Mall<br \/>\nEncoding the national debt<br \/>\nIn binary<br \/>\n(it&#8217;s still a lot of zeros)<\/p>\n<p>And planting rows of wheat in the Midwest<br \/>\nGiving Earth its own UPC<br \/>\nFor the scanners of alien invaders<br \/>\nSo they&#8217;d understand the cost<\/p>\n<p>Before they get to the checkout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian&#8217;s driving along seeing barcodes In the stands of denuded trees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,21,19],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-aliens","tag-code","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}