{"id":6427,"date":"2012-06-14T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=6427"},"modified":"2012-06-14T13:17:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T18:17:26","slug":"athabascan-aereality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2012\/06\/athabascan-aereality\/","title":{"rendered":"athabascan aereality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/robert-johnson_tar-sands.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6428\" title=\"robert-johnson_tar-sands\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/robert-johnson_tar-sands.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Business Insider<\/em>&#8216;s Robert Johnson has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/category\/athabascan-oil-sands\">touring various projects, sites, and landscapes<\/a> in and around Canada&#8217;s Athabascan Oil Sands; the photographs he&#8217;s bringing back and articles he&#8217;s curating are a stunning mixture of the industrial sublime, raw instrumentality (such as: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/this-is-what-a-42500-tire-looks-like-the-5980r63-xdr-2012-5\">the world&#8217;s largest dump truck, and its forty-thousand dollar tires<\/a>), and a visual testament to the scale of contemporary humanity&#8217;s geological agency. The photograph above is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/canadian-oil-sands-flyover-2012-5#\">Johnson&#8217;s aerial tour of the oil sands<\/a>, which he undertook after being refused access to the mines on the ground. A full set of photographs &#8212; well over two hundred &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/78047884@N07\/sets\/72157629988382829\/with\/7154129887\/\">can be seen on flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insider&#8216;s Robert Johnson has been touring various projects, sites, and landscapes in and around Canada&#8217;s Athabascan Oil Sands; the photographs he&#8217;s bringing back and articles he&#8217;s curating are a stunning mixture of the industrial sublime, raw instrumentality (such as: the world&#8217;s largest dump truck, and its forty-thousand dollar tires), and a visual testament to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[708,626,478,320,727,115],"class_list":["post-6427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-landscape","tag-accelerated-geology","tag-aereality","tag-canada","tag-mining","tag-oil-sands","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6430,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427\/revisions\/6430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}