{"id":2242,"date":"2017-08-26T10:52:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T14:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2017-08-26T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T14:52:18","slug":"melting-chimneys-fort-union-national-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=2242","title":{"rendered":"Melting Chimneys, Fort Union National Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2241\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Melting-Chimneys.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2241\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Melting-Chimneys-1024x509.jpg\" alt=\"Melting Chimneys, Fort Union National Monument\" width=\"600\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Melting-Chimneys-1024x509.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Melting-Chimneys-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Melting-Chimneys-768x382.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melting Chimneys, Fort Union National Monument (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here is an image of the chimneys that remain from the buildings at Fort Union National Monument. &nbsp;This image reminds me of the soft melting pocket watches in the Dali painting&nbsp;<i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Persistence_of_Memory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Persistence of Memory<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As <a title=\"Dawn Ad\u00e8s\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dawn_Ad%C3%A8s\">Dawn Ad\u00e8s<\/a> wrote, &#8220;The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order&#8221;. &nbsp;Pretty deep stuff. &nbsp;But then again, the above image is a symbol of the slow erosion and collapse of Fort Union over time. &nbsp;As you walk around the grounds, you will notice many braces holding up walls, and areas where workers are repairing the adobe remnants of the walls. &nbsp;Abandoned in 1891, it is hard to imagine the remnants lasting another 126 years.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this could also be one of those glass half full\/glass half empty tests. &nbsp;Are the chimneys melting into the blobs, or are the chimneys arising out of the blobs?<\/p>\n<p>Fort Union Chimneys: N35 54 22.23 W105 00 50.67<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an image of the chimneys that remain from the buildings at Fort Union&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[598,564,107,597],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-mexico","tag-chimneys","tag-fort-union-national-monument","tag-new-mexico","tag-watrous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}