{"id":5206,"date":"2015-02-03T08:21:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T12:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5206"},"modified":"2015-02-03T08:21:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T12:21:42","slug":"looking-up-vs-looking-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5206","title":{"rendered":"looking up vs. looking down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three quick things:<\/p>\n<p>1) A piece I wrote about The Gates: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=475\">They Draw Your Eyes Up<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;  <br \/>2) A piece I saw in <em>The Guardian<\/em>: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/jan\/30\/tv-soaps-dont-ring-true-any-more-deborah-orr\" target=\"_blank\">TV soaps just don\u2019t ring true any more \u2013 where are all the people staring mutely at their iPhones?<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;  <br \/>3) The fact that I happened to look up on the train yesterday morning and I saw an origami crane, with its tail stuck into a gap in the metal so that it was suspended over our heads. It was like being underground and suddenly looking up to see a bird flying overhead.<\/p>\n<p>But of course nobody else noticed it, because their eyes were all aimed down, at their cell phones.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F5206&#038;print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F5206&#038;print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three quick things: 1) A piece I wrote about The Gates: &#8220;They Draw Your Eyes Up&#8220; &nbsp; 2) A piece I saw in The Guardian: &#8220;TV soaps just don\u2019t ring true any more \u2013 where are all the people staring mutely at their iPhones?&#8220; &nbsp; 3) The fact that I happened to look up on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5210,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions\/5210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}