{"id":26646,"date":"2021-06-17T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/how-the-pandemic-is-an-example-of-a-hyperobject#id29967"},"modified":"2021-06-17T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T22:24:00","slug":"how-the-pandemic-is-an-example-of-a-hyperobject-an-incomprehensible-thing-so-large-that-it-subsumes-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/how-the-pandemic-is-an-example-of-a-hyperobject-an-incomprehensible-thing-so-large-that-it-subsumes-us\/","title":{"rendered":"How the pandemic is an example of a hyperobject\u2014an incomprehensible thing so large that it subsumes us."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Fourteen million tons of Styrofoam are produced every year; chunks of it break down into particles that enter other objects, including animals. Although Styrofoam is everywhere, one can never point to all the Styrofoam in the world and say, &ldquo;There it is.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/persons-of-interest\/timothy-mortons-hyper-pandemic\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The New Yorker<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/how-the-pandemic-is-an-example-of-a-hyperobject\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Fourteen million tons of Styrofoam are produced every year; chunks of it break down into particles that enter other objects, including animals. Although Styrofoam is everywhere, one can never point to all the Styrofoam in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26647,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26646\/revisions\/26647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}