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From ‘The Resident Tourist: Otah Tree’ by Troy Chin in ‘Liquid City: Volume One’:<\/p>\n
Mint:<\/span> It’s funny. Don’t you think, Troy? It would have been better From ‘The Resident Tourist: Otah Tree’ by Troy Chin in ‘Liquid City: Volume One’: Mint: It’s funny. Don’t you think,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[47,107],"class_list":["post-5800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-anicca","tag-truth","wpcat-241-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTroy:<\/span> What is?
\nMint:<\/span> If I hadn’t come here, I’d still believe that my tree’s standing alive. Would that have been better or worse?
\nTroy:<\/span> I… I’m not sure… (In the six months since my return to Singapore, I’ve visited a very small handful of my old haunts… I don’t because… I can’t answer that question.)<\/p>\n
\nto treasure the tree as it was in the past
\nto not be attached to the tree’s eventual changes,
\nto know the truth of the tree now.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"