{"id":13919,"date":"2026-02-28T21:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13919"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:10:07","slug":"surrender-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13919","title":{"rendered":"Surrender (or not)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to The New York Times, for alerting me in their weekly Canadian newsletter to artist Dara Vandor and her amazing (and bone-chilling) plaques like this one, straight from a nightmarish imagined future:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daravandor.com\/pax-americana-weldon-plaques\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13920\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/surrender.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/surrender.jpg 440w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/surrender-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/surrender-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What can I say? It&#8217;s like something straight out of the Fallout game universe and its imagined future.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks but no thanks. Je pr\u00e9f\u00e8re rester canadien.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13919' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to The New York Times, for alerting me in their weekly Canadian newsletter to artist Dara Vandor and her amazing (and bone-chilling) plaques like this one, straight from a nightmarish imagined future: What can I say? It&#8217;s like something straight out of the Fallout game universe and its imagined future. Thanks but no thanks. <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13919' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-canada","category-politics","category-54-id","category-22-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13921,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919\/revisions\/13921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}