{"id":7134,"date":"2021-06-29T06:32:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7134"},"modified":"2021-06-29T06:32:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:32:39","slug":"the-television-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/the-television-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"The Television Antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7134\" data-postid=\"7134\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7134 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>I drove past a homeless encampment. Domiciles that defied description flashed before my eyes. Some were like centaurs in that they were half of something and half of something else. Such as: half tent, half truck; half RV, half shipping crate; half plywood shack, half tepee; half tarp, half dog house. You get the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something attached to the roof of one of the domiciles caught my attention. I did a double take. It was a rooftop television antenna, a real behemoth. Pure analog from the 1970s. How it came to be installed there, well&#8230;no matter. The better question is why install a non-functioning television antenna atop a domicile in a homeless encampment. I have pondering the answer ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Possible answers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Insanity<\/li><li>A big fat joke<\/li><li>A thin fuck you<\/li><li>Cultural commentary<\/li><li>Art<\/li><li>Something to do<\/li><li>To communicate with aliens<\/li><li>Sly obnoxious symbol<\/li><li>Lightning rod<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>I invite your answers. I&#8217;m leaning toward a combination of #2 and #5. Why? Because I laughed when I saw the antenna and I immediately grasped the intent of the artist.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drove past a homeless encampment. Domiciles that defied description flashed before my eyes. Some were like centaurs in that they were half of something and half of something else. Such as: half tent, half truck; half RV, half shipping crate; half plywood shack, half tepee; half tarp, half dog house. You get the idea. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7137,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions\/7137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}