{"id":333,"date":"2004-06-07T16:34:13","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T23:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/thinking-today-about-tomorrows-museum-of-yesterday\/"},"modified":"2004-06-07T16:34:13","modified_gmt":"2004-06-07T23:34:13","slug":"thinking-today-about-tomorrows-museum-of-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/mine\/thinking-today-about-tomorrows-museum-of-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Today about Tomorrow\u2019s Museum of Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>On a card by a case in an unvisited corner:<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know much about this male, other than that he died of old age around <\/p>\n<p>2100 CE at an age between 120 and 150. Analysis indicates he ate copious peanut butter. The brown teeth indicate frequent consumption of <\/p>\n<p>a beverage called &#8221;coffee.&#8221; There is really only one noteworthy attribute: his hand appears to have frozen in a gesture years <\/p>\n<p>before his death. We speculate the extended middle finger is a ritual greeting of his people. We salute him in return. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n<a title=\"Alibi Short Fiction Contest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alibi.com\/short_fiction\/display.php?desired_page=short_fiction\">Alibi <\/p>\n<p>Short Fiction Contest<\/a> (Deadline is Friday, June 11, at 5 p.m.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a card by a case in an unvisited corner: We don\u2019t know much about this male, other than that he died of old age around 2100 CE at an age between 120 and 150. Analysis indicates he ate copious peanut butter. The brown teeth indicate frequent consumption of a beverage called &#8221;coffee.&#8221; There is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/mine\/thinking-today-about-tomorrows-museum-of-yesterday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thinking Today about Tomorrow\u2019s Museum of Yesterday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}