{"id":166,"date":"2012-05-29T00:12:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T23:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paganfreak.net\/Blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2014-06-07T14:45:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T13:45:46","slug":"trendy-suburbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Trendy Suburbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Row upon row of shops,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">selling overpriced little things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That a consumer wants,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">but doesnt need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Edwardian houses in need of constant upkeep. Forget the Jones&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is full on competition throughout the community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The community such as it is; media wannabes, finacial plebs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&amp; barrista Iphone owners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Out with the sun we all come<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to procrastinate on street furniture<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">pretending we all have lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Whilst secretly concerned with bank balances &amp; over hanging bills<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">lurking every week, every month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Naked apes are we<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">so good at pretending we are&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That our heritage is that of a deity<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">which keeps us from the animal kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Half godlike children,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">trapped in this mortal coil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Drowning in consumerism to keep us amused,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">until we die.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What is this life worth?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Should wealth be in trinkets?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In thoughts?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In deeds?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The alter of Mammon competes for service with religion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">21st century Monkeys look on in awe,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">at the facade of glitter &amp; the Emperors new clothes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">of no substance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">pagan386 25\/5\/12<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Row upon row of shops, selling overpriced little things. That a consumer wants, but doesnt need. \u00a0 Edwardian houses in need of constant upkeep. Forget the Jones&#8217;. This is full on competition throughout the community. The community such as it is; media wannabes, finacial plebs &amp; barrista Iphone owners. \u00a0 Out with the sun we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/?p=166\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trendy Suburbia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}