{"id":179,"date":"2013-07-22T11:34:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slightlymuddy.com\/kuriosum\/?p=179"},"modified":"2013-07-22T11:34:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:34:04","slug":"simon-armitage-a-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/slightlymuddy.com\/kuriosum\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Simon Armitage &#8211; A Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/slightlymuddy.com\/kuriosum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/575477_10201226624607158_660752653_n.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"575477_10201226624607158_660752653_n\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/slightlymuddy.com\/kuriosum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/575477_10201226624607158_660752653_n.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The future was a beautiful place, once.<br \/>\nRemember the full-blown balsa-wood town<br \/>\non public display in the Civic Hall.<br \/>\nThe ring-bound sketches, artists\u2019 impressions,<br \/>\nblueprints of smoked glass and tubular steel,<br \/>\nboard-game suburbs, modes of transportation<br \/>\nlike fairground rides or executive toys.<br \/>\nCities like dreams, cantilevered by light.<br \/>\nAnd people like us at the bottle-bank<br \/>\nnext to the cycle-path, or dog-walking<br \/>\nover tended strips of fuzzy-felt grass,<br \/>\nor motoring home in electric cars,<br \/>\nmodel drivers. Or after the late show &#8211;<br \/>\nstrolling the boulevard. They were the plans,<br \/>\nall underwritten in the neat left-hand<br \/>\nof architects \u2013 a true, legible script.<br \/>\nI pulled that future out of the north wind<br \/>\nat the landfill site, stamped with today\u2019s date,<br \/>\nriding the air with other such futures,<br \/>\nall unlived in and now fully extinct.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Faber, 2007<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future was a beautiful place, once. Remember the full-blown balsa-wood town on public display in the Civic Hall. The ring-bound sketches, artists\u2019 impressions, blueprints of smoked glass and tubular steel, board-game suburbs, modes of transportation like fairground rides or executive toys. Cities like dreams, cantilevered by light. And people &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,45,37],"tags":[48,46,47],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academicy-stuff","category-other-peoples-stuff","category-psychogeography","tag-garbage","tag-poetry","tag-the-future","has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/slightlymuddy.com\/kuriosum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/575477_10201226624607158_660752653_n.jpg?fit=960%2C720","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7sHEp-2T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":161,"url":"http:\/\/slightlymuddy.com\/kuriosum\/?p=161","url_meta":{"origin":179,"position":0},"title":"Ruins in esrever","author":"slightly","date":"June 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Ruins in reverse is an exhibition in the Project Space at Tate Modern between 1 March \u2013 24 June 2013. 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