{"id":1162,"date":"2009-06-04T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2010-04-04T12:07:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T18:07:12","slug":"life-in-the-future-is-a-dream-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Future is a Dream World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GJjUVIIYptE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>A 1939 short film looks at the amazing world of the future in the year 2000. Keep watching&#8211;there is a twist. As usual, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasclifton.com\/2007\/04\/postcards-from-furture-that-never-was.html\">future looks different than people expected.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1939 short film looks at the amazing world of the future in the year 2000. Keep watching&#8211;there is a twist. As usual, the future looks different than people expected.<\/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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[119,22],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-future","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-iK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":870,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=870","url_meta":{"origin":1162,"position":0},"title":"Postcards from the Future that Never Was","author":"Chas S. 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He wonders, \"More importantly, will modern Paganism change to become more 'video friendly'?\"Take, for instance, the videos posted by the publicity-hungry Corellian Nativist Tradition. There you may see CNT leader Don Lewis dressed like a small-town insurance agent. His sport\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1176,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1176","url_meta":{"origin":1162,"position":2},"title":"My First-Draft Paper on the &#8216;Crisis of History&#8217;","author":"Chas S. 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