{"id":2155,"date":"2019-05-17T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2024-07-01T18:40:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T17:40:58","slug":"walking-a-world-already-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/walking-a-world-already-past\/","title":{"rendered":"walking a world already past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our final days in the Atacama, and as far and as high into the mountains and desert here as our bodies would allow, we reached these salt flats. A national park, holding one of the world&#8217;s largest and purest active lithium deposits \u2013 lithium increasingly in demand, and being extracted, for the batteries required by all our new hybrid\/electric vehicles and mobile devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spectral flamingos, like shadows of a place already past, as if their existence here were still possible\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/theskywasclearer\/process\/saltflat-01.jpg\" alt=\"Salar de Atacama, Chile\" style=\"width:900px;height:675px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/theskywasclearer\/process\/saltflat-02.jpg\" alt=\"Salar de Atacama, Chile\" style=\"width:900px;height:675px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/theskywasclearer\/process\/saltflat-03.jpg\" alt=\"Salar de Atacama, Chile\" style=\"width:900px;height:675px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ images: Mike Brookes ]<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our final days in the Atacama, and as far and as high into the mountains and desert here as our bodies would allow, we reached these salt flats. A national park, holding one of the world&#8217;s largest and purest active lithium deposits \u2013 lithium increasingly in demand, and being extracted, for the batteries required by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,36,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-a-clear-day-you-can-see-for-ever","category-piles-and-holes","category-the-sky-was-clearer-in-those-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}