{"id":917,"date":"2014-07-02T08:08:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=917"},"modified":"2014-07-02T08:46:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:46:31","slug":"what-matters-more-the-lasting-or-the-fleeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/02\/what-matters-more-the-lasting-or-the-fleeting\/","title":{"rendered":"What matters more, the lasting or the fleeting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A kid talking about Snapchat made me consider something interesting: <strong>It inverts the traditional assumption that longevity correlates to importance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Because Snapchat images show briefly &amp; then disappear forever, they demand attention. <em>This is special, this moment won\u2019t come again<\/em>. That\u2019s quite different from other human experiences: <em>If this matters, write it down, make a copy, back it up, etc.<\/em> Particularly in photography, it\u2019s generally our most important images that we want to preserve the longest (that we commit to archival prints, etc.).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPay attention; this is going to go away!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, it&#8217;s <em>all<\/em> going to go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A kid talking about Snapchat made me consider something interesting: It inverts the traditional assumption that longevity correlates to importance. Because Snapchat images show briefly &amp; then disappear forever, they demand attention. This is special, this moment won\u2019t come again. That\u2019s quite different from other human experiences: If this matters, write it down, make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}