{"id":500,"date":"2014-03-30T17:02:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T06:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/ephemera\/?p=500"},"modified":"2020-11-16T16:58:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T05:58:47","slug":"the-supermarket-receipt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/the-supermarket-receipt\/","title":{"rendered":"The supermarket receipt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140330.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-501 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140330.jpg\" alt=\"Supermarket receipt\" width=\"567\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140330.jpg 567w, https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140330-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140330-530x298.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another day and another scrap of paper where it doesn\u2019t really belong on the banks of a local river.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, there is far more plastic than paper blighting this stretch of the river and, in theory, posing more of an environmental menace in terms of life-span and biodegradability. One decent rainstorm and this little docket would be little more than pulp.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not the point is it?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also true that if this was a <a title=\"The washed-up map\" href=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/the-washed-up-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">map<\/a> or something more intriguing than a humble supermarket receipt, then perhaps I wouldn\u2019t be looking at it quite so askance.<\/p>\n<p>But it isn\u2019t, and I am.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I just don\u2019t understand how something like this came to be somewhere like here.<\/p>\n<p>Was somebody just walking along beside the river with their supermarket shopping and decided they desperately needed to rid themselves of any evidence as to how much they had spent? GET AWAY receipt.<\/p>\n<p>Or did it find itself liberated in the car park of the local supermarket and then carried by the prevailing winds, undamaged, until it came to be lodged in the branches of this little bush?<\/p>\n<p>What is it <em>doing<\/em> here?<\/p>\n<p>OK, so it\u2019s only a little slip of paper, something so inconsequential as to be barely worth worrying about \u2013 let\u2019s get our priorities right \u2013 but then again maybe this is a case of being able to see <a title=\"Auguries of Innocence\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Auguries_of_Innocence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">a world in a grain of sand<\/a>. This little coloured chit, unloved and in the wrong place, represents a microcosm of the paper world.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t have all the nice ephemera \u2013 coolphemera \u2013 without the nasties too. However incongruous this item may seem, it\u2019s not unique \u2013 and that\u2019s the problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Shredded-paper-grey-sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-513 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Shredded-paper-grey-sm.png\" alt=\"shredded paper\" width=\"200\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day and another scrap of paper where it doesn\u2019t really belong on the banks of a local river. To be fair, there is far more plastic than paper blighting this stretch of the river and, in theory, posing more of an environmental menace in terms of life-span and biodegradability. One decent rainstorm and this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more_paper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}