{"id":459,"date":"2021-07-14T11:18:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T11:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/albaghuba.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:08:32","slug":"the-hourglass-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albaghuba.com\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"The Hourglass (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albaghuba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/75LREZNMC5STYT2N-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/albaghuba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/75LREZNMC5STYT2N-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/albaghuba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/75LREZNMC5STYT2N-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/albaghuba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/75LREZNMC5STYT2N-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/albaghuba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/75LREZNMC5STYT2N-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/albaghuba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/75LREZNMC5STYT2N-1536x1086.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/albaghuba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/75LREZNMC5STYT2N-2048x1448.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/albaghuba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/75LREZNMC5STYT2N-1200x848.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/albaghuba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/75LREZNMC5STYT2N-1860x1315.jpg 1860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hourglass is a hypothetical megastructure envisioned to be erected as the last nuclear bomb memorial of humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inverted dome massive structure is located in the middle of a vast inhabitable desert in some unknown location. 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