{"id":591,"date":"2008-05-08T22:42:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T05:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2008-05-08T22:42:55","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T05:42:55","slug":"a85-australian-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"#a85 :: Australian stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/050708.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/050708-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" title=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-592\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"3\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/050708-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/050708-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/050708.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The lickety-split digitization of all human commerce runs into a brick wall when it comes to sending physical messages.<\/p>\n<p>Until mass production sufficiently cuts the cost of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=3-d+printing&#038;aie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;aq=t&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a\">3-D printing<\/a> and, <a href=\"http:\/\/100mg-viagra.net\" title=\"viagra\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">viagra<\/a>  thus, the 3-D fax, humans must carry hand-made documents and machine-made objects from one place to another.<\/p>\n<p>To subsidize the cost of the trucks, trains, planes and numb-minded civil servants who move our stuff, we rely on the most archaic and quaint of constructs: A law requiring us to buy elaborately-printed squares of paper and glue them onto packages to prove we&#8217;ve paid for the service.<\/p>\n<p>This odd lot of Australian stamps came into the house as a gift and is handsomely shrink-wrapped and labeled &#8211; oddly &#8211; &#8220;GIFT.&#8221; Which mirrors the same sort of moebius-strip recursion that gave rise to the practice of using postage stamps in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I&#8217;m overthinking it. Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lickety-split digitization of all human commerce runs into a brick wall when it comes to sending physical messages. Until mass production sufficiently cuts the cost of 3-D printing and, viagra thus, the 3-D fax, humans must carry hand-made documents and machine-made objects from one place to another. To subsidize the cost of the trucks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-symbol","category-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}