{"id":12,"date":"2008-01-23T16:32:24","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T21:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-01-23T16:32:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T21:32:24","slug":"the-beauty-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/01\/23\/the-beauty-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be short and sweet. Mostly because I have little time to actually expand upon it and I have to get back to working.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who live in the US are very aware of the little blaring sirens of alarm telling us that things are wrong. We can\u2019t go a day without hearing at least something about recessions, bleak environmental outlooks or conflicts on the horizon. The one I link at the bottom of the article appears in an Air Force article about a possible war with China.<\/p>\n<p>Now, this isn\u2019t some hand waving ninny commentary telling anybody anything new. We all have a sense of what is going on, whether we choose to recognize it or not. This is actually a suggestion that you stop and think about the time we\u2019re living in. We certainly are living in a world that is completely unrecognizable from the one at the turn of the new millenium. It\u2019s not often that we stop to take appreciation of this, even if most of the time our world is filled with seeming chaos. The proverb is probably very true: May you live in interesting times.<br \/>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2008\/01\/airforce_china_strategy_080121\/\">Click here to read the article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be short and sweet. Mostly because I have little time to actually expand upon it and I have to get back to working. Those of us who live in the US are very aware of the little blaring sirens of alarm telling us that things are wrong. We can\u2019t go a day without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,17,16],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-china","tag-dystopian-future","tag-nuclear-apocalypse"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}