{"id":2031,"date":"2019-06-10T08:02:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2019-06-09T18:05:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T01:05:41","slug":"tabloid-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=2031","title":{"rendered":"Tabloid Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"532\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Amazing_Stories_Annual_1927.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2032\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Amazing_Stories_Annual_1927.jpg 399w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Amazing_Stories_Annual_1927-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><figcaption>Amazing Stories Cover from 1927<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robert Borski<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Sorry, Mr. Bradbury, there are no lemonade<br>stands or white picket fences here; nor&nbsp;<br>will you find sterile encampments or fields<br>of shitatoes, Messieurs Musk and Damon.<br>Rather, this is the&nbsp;<em>other<\/em>&nbsp;red planet, the one<br>that exists on the underside of the Arean dream &#8212;<br>reality TV Mars.<br><br>Here there are neither pristine lakes,&nbsp;<br>nor carefully-manicured ski runs at Olympus Mons,&nbsp;<br>but used condoms in the canals of Schiaparelli,<br>and the broken warriors that smile back&nbsp;<br>to you from skid row in downtown Helium<br>(at least the ones who made it back<br>from the Battle for Grover&#8217;s Mill) have<br>the meth-head dentition of that other Burroughs.<br>(Bill, not E.R.)<br><br>Meanwhile, even as trailer trash princesses<br>proclaim their right to choose (&#8220;You can&#8217;t&nbsp;<br>have an omelette without breaking eggs&#8221;),<br>the royal family of John and Deja Carter-Thoris<br>attempts to suppress photos of their piss-drunk&nbsp;<br>son passed out in a smashed rocket-sled,&nbsp;<br>and are still clinging to the diversionary tactic&nbsp;<br>innundating the airwaves about how planetary&nbsp;<br>hero and pride of the Space Corps,&nbsp;<br>Commander Marvin Martian, is about to fake-<br>land on Phobos with his robot dog.&nbsp;<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Borski Sorry, Mr. Bradbury, there are no lemonadestands or white picket fences here; nor&nbsp;will you find sterile encampments or fieldsof shitatoes, Messieurs Musk and Damon.Rather, this is the&nbsp;other&nbsp;red planet, the onethat exists on the underside of the Arean dream &#8212;reality TV Mars. Here there are neither pristine lakes,&nbsp;nor carefully-manicured ski runs at Olympus Mons,&nbsp;but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}