{"id":310,"date":"2025-04-18T05:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/the-rise-of-the-infinite-fringe-the-verge\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T05:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:20:04","slug":"the-rise-of-the-infinite-fringe-the-verge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/the-rise-of-the-infinite-fringe-the-verge\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of the infinite fringe | The Verge"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>a fringe in its most literal sense: the fraying edge of a piece of fabric. Remove one thread at the edge, and the fringe gets slightly longer; remove more threads, and the fabric\u2019s surface starts to shrink. Pick at it for 10 years, pulling threads from wherever \u2014 at the edge, in the middle, maybe three-fourths away from the right-side border or five-sixths away from the left \u2014 and the structural integrity of the fabric weakens. Pull out certain threads that intersect at certain places, and a hole will emerge. Punch a hole in a weakened patch of the fabric, and the threads will snap.<\/p>\n<p>How long does it take before it all falls apart?<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/cs\/features\/649947\/the-rise-of-the-infinite-fringe\">www.theverge.com\/cs\/features\/649947\/the-rise-of-the-infinite-fringe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a fringe in its most literal sense: the fraying edge of a piece of fabric. Remove one thread at the edge, and the fringe gets slightly longer; remove more threads, and the fabric\u2019s surface starts to shrink. Pick at it for 10 years, pulling threads from wherever \u2014 at the edge, in the middle, maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}