{"id":6123,"date":"2009-09-23T02:14:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T01:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6123"},"modified":"2009-09-23T14:02:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T13:02:14","slug":"the-coming-of-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/09\/23\/the-coming-of-the-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"The coming of the dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tomhide\/3945957994\/sizes\/o\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sydney1.jpg\" alt=\"sydney1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Impossible to avoid thoughts of either JG Ballard or various apocalyptic horror and science fiction scenarios when looking at these photos of Sydney, Australia, taken a few hours ago. A cloud of red dust passed over the city in the early morning and the depopulated views only add to the eerie atmosphere. These are from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plasticbag\/galleries\/72157622310168099\/#photo_3946041192\" target=\"_blank\">Red Dust<\/a> Flickr gallery. <a href=\"http:\/\/theotherandrew.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/under-bloody-sun.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Other Andrew<\/a> writes about the inundation on his blog. I&#8217;m looking forward now to the reaction of another <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Sydney<\/span> Melbourne resident, Simon Sellars, who runs <a href=\"http:\/\/ballardian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ballardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/redsydneyproject\/pool\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Red Sydney Project\u2014Dust Storm Days<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tomhide\/3945172367\/sizes\/o\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sydney2.jpg\" alt=\"sydney2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/05\/09\/apocalypse-now\/\" target=\"_self\">Apocalypse now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impossible to avoid thoughts of either JG Ballard or various apocalyptic horror and science fiction scenarios when looking at these photos of Sydney, Australia, taken a few hours ago. A cloud of red dust passed over the city in the early morning and the depopulated views only add to the eerie atmosphere. These are from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/09\/23\/the-coming-of-the-dust\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The coming of the dust&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51,22,12,20],"tags":[2088,792,137,1936],"class_list":["post-6123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cities","category-horror","category-photography","category-science-fiction","tag-apocalypse-now","tag-ballardian","tag-jg-ballard","tag-simon-sellars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1AL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}