{"id":15657,"date":"2026-06-24T06:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=15657"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:49:12","slug":"regality-desolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/regality-desolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Regality\/Desolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_15658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15658\" style=\"width: 1052px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ric204a5-nyc-sidewalk-cat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ric204a5-nyc-sidewalk-cat.jpg\" alt=\"prone cat\" width=\"1052\" height=\"1300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15658\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">beaten? supremely confident?<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nGrok says: &#8220;Overall scene: This is clearly the entrance to a fish\/seafood market or shop. The combination of the &#8220;FISH&#8221; sign, tuna\/salmon references, and the Shanghai Aquatic Products Company notice all point to that. The cat sleeping right there makes perfect sense! Some text is faded, angled, or partially obscured by wear on the posters, so I can&#8217;t read every single character perfectly, but the main ones are clear. I examined the image closely (including the posters on the wall\/door area). Here&#8217;s what the visible text says: Right-side posters (on the dark wall\/door frame): Top poster\/ad: &#8220;Great Low tar Vantage&#8221;<br \/>\nThis is a vintage Vantage cigarettes advertisement. Vantage was known in the 1970s\u201380s for its &#8220;low tar&#8221; marketing with slogans like &#8220;Where Great Taste &#038; Low Tar Meet.&#8221; The circular target-like logo next to it is typical for their ads.<br \/>\nWhite paper\/poster below it:<br \/>\n\u4e0a\u6d77\u6c34\u4ea7\u516c\u53f8 (Sh\u00e0ngh\u01cei Shu\u01d0ch\u01cen G\u014dngs\u012b)<br \/>\n\u2192 Shanghai Aquatic Products Company (a real fisheries\/aquatic products company).<br \/>\n\u7ecf\u8425 (j\u012bngy\u00edng) \u2192 &#8220;operating,&#8221; &#8220;managing,&#8221; or &#8220;for business\/sale.&#8221;  There are additional Chinese characters below that are partially faded or angled, but it appears to be an official notice or business sign related to seafood\/aquatics.<br \/>\nOn the glass door: Large sign: FISH<br \/>\nLower section (partially visible): Mentions of Tuna and Salmon (or similar seafood items \u2014 looks like a shop menu or product list).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grok says: &#8220;Overall scene: This is clearly the entrance to a fish\/seafood market or shop. The combination of the &#8220;FISH&#8221; sign, tuna\/salmon references, and the Shanghai Aquatic Products Company notice all point to that. The cat sleeping right there makes perfect sense! Some text is faded, angled, or partially obscured by wear on the posters, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/regality-desolation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Regality\/Desolation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[91,46,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-91","category-city","category-strange-land"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15661,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657\/revisions\/15661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}