{"id":4781,"date":"2013-01-28T22:19:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T03:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2013-01-29T11:58:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T16:58:46","slug":"selling-the-earth-no-return-no-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/01\/selling-the-earth-no-return-no-exchange.html","title":{"rendered":"<center><em>Selling the Earth<\/em> &#8230; &#8216;No Return, No Exchange&#8217;<\/center>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>A poem by Heathcote Williams, narration and montage by Alan Cox.<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KZ8dfH7A04Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>The print edition of <em>Selling the Earth<\/em> is coming soon from Cold Turkey Press.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The poem begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After someone had sold their virginity on the Internet<br \/>\nAnd made a hundred thousand pounds,<br \/>\nAnother entrepreneur would decide that he\u2019d try<br \/>\nTo put Planet Earth itself up for sale.<\/p>\n<p>His website describes the Earth as  \u201cauthentic\u201d, and \u201cused\u201d<br \/>\nHe says it\u2019s to go under the hammer at Yahoo Auction, Japan.<br \/>\nAnd adds that the Earth has been gifted to its seller<br \/>\nBy God, \u201cwho appeared to him in a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whereupon, what with a recession and times being hard,<br \/>\nThe owner has apparently opted to sell,<br \/>\nAnd, as of writing, the bidding stands at 216,000 yen (US$2,700).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by Heathcote Williams, narration and montage by Alan Cox. The print edition of Selling the Earth is coming soon from Cold Turkey Press. The poem begins: After someone had sold their virginity on the Internet And made a hundred thousand pounds, Another entrepreneur would decide that he\u2019d try To put Planet Earth itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-media","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Straight-Up-Herman-Selling-the-Earth-\u2026-\u2018No-Return-No-Exchange\u2019.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-1f7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}