title: Laravel 4, Omit timestamps in Eloquent queries
body: <p>I am working on an application and am using timestamps for administration and database purposes.</p>
  
  <p>For my frontend api, I have created a series of json responses that return various objects and child objects, but on the frontend, I never make use of the timestamps. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to omit timestamps from an Eloquent query without having to explicitly define all of the other columns with a <code>-&gt;select(['x', 'y'])</code> clause?</p>