{"id":1251,"date":"2016-11-27T13:31:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T21:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/modernity-as-it-relates-to-walls\/"},"modified":"2016-11-27T13:40:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T21:40:29","slug":"modernity-as-it-relates-to-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/modernity-as-it-relates-to-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Modernity as it relates to walls"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I awake. I think of breakfast. I post on Facebook about breakfast, and get a warm response. Yet no breakfast occurs. I become concerned that there are rats in the walls. My walls. Rats. There is an alternative explanation which seems too cut and dry. This is a world where rats in the walls are as plausible as any other explanation. I would be disappointed were there no rats in the walls. My walls. Those rats! It is not something I could accept. It is a good opening line for breakfast. “I have rats in my walls.”<\/p>\n

Are these American rats, these rats in the wall? Are they outsiders looking to ingress or insiders looking to egress? \u00a0Do they want my food? My breakfast? I punch a hole in the wall and cold air ingresses. The chill of the night invades the inner sanctum. I dance a dance of bitter cold. I shout out sanctimoniously. Rats have put a hole through my abode! Rats! Rats in the walls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I awake. I think of breakfast. I post on Facebook about breakfast, and get a warm response. Yet no breakfast occurs. I become concerned that there are rats in the walls. My walls. Rats. There is an alternative explanation which seems too cut and dry. This is a world where rats in the walls are as plausible as any other explanation. I would be disappointed were there no rats in the walls. My walls. Those rats! It is not something I could accept. It is a good opening line for breakfast. “I have rats in my walls.” Are these American...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[123,150],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-poetry","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/100_1231.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u13S-kb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4211,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/premium-burrito\/","url_meta":{"origin":1251,"position":0},"title":"Premium burrito","author":"David Raffin","date":"November 3, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The book of burrito \u201cAnd so it came to pass that the breakfast burrito became the dominant life-form on the planet.\u201d \u2013Richard Lindsay And the breakfast burrito began to speculate as to who made the breakfast burrito. 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