{"id":6594,"date":"2010-12-14T23:15:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T07:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=6594"},"modified":"2010-12-14T23:15:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T07:15:54","slug":"the-end-of-decadence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/the-end-of-decadence\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of Decadence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/decadence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6595\" title=\"decadence\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/decadence-300x212.jpg?resize=300%2C212\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/decadence.jpg?resize=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/decadence.jpg?w=690&amp;ssl=1 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a photo posted on a popular style blog today. The others in the series were NSFW. The handful of comments were enthusiastic.<\/p>\n<p>A light finally went on in my head.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the fucking decadence that I hate! Not really hipsters in general so much as the ones promoting decadence.<\/p>\n<p>Nipple rings,&nbsp;\u00a0 blurred sexuality, tattooes, shaved heads, pseudo bondage, jaded topless girls with cigarettes, Gareth Pugh this and Gareth Pugh that, it&#8217;s all so tragic and played out.&nbsp;\u00a0 There&#8217;s just nowhere to go with this shit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m aware that young people must shock their elders. But it seems like too many people aren&#8217;t growing out of it. I don&#8217;t want to call out bloggers because it&#8217;s not their fault. They&#8217;re just deluded. The images they&#8217;re purveying have been around in some form for centuries, but now it&#8217;s so joyless and commercialized. Just take it away.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been scrolling through paintings of angels and religious allegories for hours, trying to elevate my soul through beauty and sincerity but it&#8217;s hard to find a strong enough antidote to the sadness of everything tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Just to keep hipsters in the loop, though, please enjoy this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hipster-cycle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6596\" title=\"hipster cycle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hipster-cycle-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hipster-cycle.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hipster-cycle.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/hipster-cycle.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a photo posted on a popular style blog today. The others in the series were NSFW. The handful of comments were enthusiastic. A light finally went on in my head. It&#8217;s the fucking decadence that I hate! Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/the-end-of-decadence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,376,7],"tags":[433,56,420],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-1Im","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}