{"id":787,"date":"2012-01-23T19:10:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T00:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2012-01-23T19:10:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T00:10:19","slug":"would-the-last-one-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"Would the last one to leave…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…please turn out the lights…in these kind of places, the last one to leave should turn out the light, leaving no traces — not a clue, not a sign, not a hint nor a line of a love once so true…disconnect everything, I’ll try to disconnect you… (“The Last One To Leave” – Elaine Paige)<\/p>\n

Sometimes, I shoot photos, and a song comes to mind. This was the case when I came upon the remains of a street light.<\/p>\n

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Now, what exactly happened, I’m not too sure. It’s not every day that one comes upon a streetlight, deconstructed.<\/p>\n

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It’s as if, perhaps a bird flew into it — after all, it doesn’t appear to have been hit by a vehicle.<\/p>\n

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Though I’ll admit I’ve often wondered what went on inside the casings of these mercury vapor lights.<\/p>\n

Look around… leaves are brown, there’s a broken shade on the ground…<\/p>\n

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It’s plastic. Very flimsy. I don’t know why I thought they’d be made of glass.<\/p>\n

Less than 24 hours later, Dominion power had replaced not only the shade, but the entire fixture. I guess perhaps they were worried what the brackish water blowing in off the bay would have done to the components.<\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/tlotl.mp3]\n

Silver Blue, who always tries to find a beacon of hope in even the darkest of situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…please turn out the lights…in these kind of places, the last one to leave should turn out the light, leaving no traces — not a clue, not a sign, not a hint nor a line of a love once so true…disconnect everything, I’ll try to disconnect you… (“The Last One To Leave” – Elaine Paige) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[347,288,345,346,287],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-broken","tag-canon","tag-dominion-power","tag-street-light","tag-t3i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}