{"id":367,"date":"2020-06-14T11:56:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T09:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albert.aribaud.net\/?p=367"},"modified":"2020-07-08T09:12:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T07:12:37","slug":"the-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/en\/the-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"The youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This text was written based on the June 10, 2020 #EcritHebdo (\u00ab\u00a0weekly writing\u00a0\u00bb)<br \/>\n<\/em><em>challenge <\/em><em>to write a text starting with \u00ab\u00a0H\u00e9 ! Les jeunes\u00a0\u00bb (\u00ab\u00a0Hey! The youth\u00a0\u00bb).<br \/>\n<\/em><em>This was done in <\/em><em>just 15 minutes from concept to publishing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hey !<\/p>\n<p>The youth have gone.<\/p>\n<p>We saw they weren&rsquo;t involved in their studies; we wondered how they would find a job later.<\/p>\n<p>We saw they weren&rsquo;t involved in their jobs; we wondered how long they were going to keep them.<\/p>\n<p>We saw they weren&rsquo;t involved in politics; we wondered how they thought they would change the world.<\/p>\n<p>We saw them not getting any wiser or settling down. All that seemed to matter to them was hanging together and having a good time.<\/p>\n<p>We were wondering whether they would ever find their place in the world.<\/p>\n<p>And this morning, they&rsquo;re gone.<\/p>\n<p>Disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time.<\/p>\n<p>They have not moved en masse in disused, empty buildings. The buildings are still disused and empty.<\/p>\n<p>They are not roaming the roads looking for somewhere to go. The roads are still full of cars and trucks, but these are just the same as everyday.<\/p>\n<p>They haven&rsquo;t gone through deserted countrysides and into abandoned farms. Countrysides are still abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>They are nowhere on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>We were wondering how they would find their place in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This text was written based on the June 10, 2020 #EcritHebdo (\u00ab\u00a0weekly writing\u00a0\u00bb) challenge to write a text starting with \u00ab\u00a0H\u00e9 ! Les jeunes\u00a0\u00bb (\u00ab\u00a0Hey! The youth\u00a0\u00bb). This was done in just 15 minutes from concept to publishing. Hey ! The youth have gone. We saw they weren&rsquo;t involved in their studies; we wondered how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weeklywriting","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aribaud.net\/albert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}