{"id":916,"date":"2016-02-19T18:14:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T02:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/?p=916"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:38:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:01","slug":"inevitability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/author-novelist\/inevitability\/","title":{"rendered":"Inevitability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DLKeur2-23-2016_Bweb.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-966\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-966 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DLKeur2-23-2016_Bweb-1024x439.jpg\" alt=\"DLKeur2-23-2016_Bweb\" width=\"843\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\"><em>They float on surface tides, siphoning whatever they can harvest for free, never sharing, never giving back, never caring of those who they, in their lustful greed, are starving.\u00a0 I watch them, safely protected from their undying appetites, and I marvel at their ignorance of the vortex soon to swallow them into extinction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Canyon Forbes watched his streams, aware that, at any moment, he\u2019d be told to shut them off, his duty station shifted to security.\u00a0 Glad that he was \u2018inside\u2019, glad he wouldn\u2019t be among those stranded, he wondered at the ignorance that had, decades past, permitted this kind of exploitation, and decided that he wasn\u2019t smart enough to figure out <em>that<\/em> answer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It didn\u2019t really bother him that millions, even billions, would perish.\u00a0 It was inevitable.\u00a0 Leadership had known the consequences for a century\u2026longer, if one believed interpretations of the organization\u2019s founders&#8217; writings. \u00a0And, logically, there could be no other outcome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(To be continued&#8230;or not. I think this one is too dystopian for my liking.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DLKeur2-23-2016_1140web.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-965\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-965\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DLKeur2-23-2016_1140web-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"DLKeur2-23-2016_1140web\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They float on surface tides, siphoning whatever they can harvest for free, never sharing, never giving back, never caring of those who they, in their lustful greed, are starving.\u00a0 I watch them, safely protected from their undying appetites, and I marvel at their ignorance of the vortex soon to swallow them into extinction. &nbsp; Canyon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123],"tags":[165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}