{"id":32053,"date":"2025-01-28T14:47:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=32053"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:48:05","slug":"toms-world-28jan2025-the-ravages-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/toms-world-28jan2025-the-ravages-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom&#8217;s World &#8211; 28JAN2025 &#8211; The Ravages of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tomd77\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">Tom | Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/category\/guest-contributors\/guest-contributor-tomd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TomD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The place where I grew up, at least from age 5, doesn\u2019t exist any more. The name, Sandy Springs, exists as does the geographical location, north Atlanta metro, both exist. But the reality is long gone, torn down and the replacement torn down and the replacement of the replacement\u2014- You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing, absolutely nothing physical from my childhood survives. Dust and dead. The neighborhood BBQ parties where everyone\u2019s Dad was a WWII vet. The neighborhood gone, the street gone. Highrise buildings where the woods with the abandoned POW camp were. An 8 lane road where the old rock quarry was where we used to shoot snakes in the lake at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m the only one left and I\u2019m not going to be around that much longer either.<\/p>\n<p>And the replacements are far from what I imagined as I read my Sci-Fi. Nobody then wrote anything sufficiently dystopian to include this reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom | Flickr TomD The place where I grew up, at least from age 5, doesn\u2019t exist any more. 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