{"id":83594,"date":"2022-10-11T08:50:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83594"},"modified":"2022-10-11T08:50:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:50:54","slug":"remember-back-in-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83594","title":{"rendered":"Remember Back In The &#8217;80s?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When pop culture went through a phase of giggling at videos of school kids &#8220;ducking and covering&#8221; to practice for nuclear attacks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a hunch that people in the 2040s are going to do the same with video of some of today&#8217;s dimmer, more dissociative bulbs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Never forget what some people did in the name of COVID. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9ayYr3nhyT\">https:\/\/t.co\/9ayYr3nhyT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ben Kew (@ben_kew) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ben_kew\/status\/1579493679005601793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That is to say, if they stop winning all the elections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When pop culture went through a phase of giggling at videos of school kids &#8220;ducking and covering&#8221; to practice for nuclear attacks? I have a hunch that people in the 2040s are going to do the same with video of some of today&#8217;s dimmer, more dissociative bulbs: That is to say, if they stop winning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-entitled-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83595,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83594\/revisions\/83595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}