{"id":9062,"date":"2012-12-04T18:41:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T23:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/?p=9062"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:49:06","slug":"final-resting-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2012\/12\/04\/final-resting-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Resting Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9064\" style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2012\/12\/04\/final-resting-place\/rb_doorway\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9064\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9064 size-full\" title=\"Looking to the future...\" src=\"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/RB_doorway.jpg\" alt=\"Looking to the future...\" width=\"411\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/RB_doorway.jpg 411w, https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/RB_doorway-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking to the future&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I want my machinery to disappear.&#8221; -Andy Warhol<\/p>\n<p>With death and his friends hunting in packs this fall (coworker Bob Forrest in October, brother-in-law Ralph and close friend Ann in November, and yesterday fellow Oklahoma photojournalist Jerry Laizure), I&#8217;ve given a few minutes to thinking about how I want my machinery to disappear. I think I have finally found something that will satisfy my huge ego and misanthropic disdain of conventional funerals: I want to be thrown into an open field and have the Air Force bomb my rotting carcass into the stone age. A crowd cheering wildly might be nice as well.<\/p>\n<p>My sister is aware of this final wish, but if her Bohemian New Orleans lifestyle snatches her first, it&#8217;s up to you to drag dead me to a missile range and bribe some B-52 pilots into dropping their load on the body formerly known as me.<\/p>\n<p>2018 update: I am aware that the sun, then the galaxy, then the Universe will swallow my machinery and every mention of it in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I want my machinery to disappear.&#8221; -Andy Warhol With death and his friends hunting in packs this fall (coworker Bob Forrest in October, brother-in-law Ralph and close friend Ann in November, and yesterday fellow Oklahoma photojournalist Jerry Laizure), I&#8217;ve given a few minutes to thinking about how I want my machinery to disappear. I think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-journals-notebooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9062"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33406,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062\/revisions\/33406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}