{"id":11523,"date":"2010-06-12T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/12\/a-most-amazing-time-to-be-alive\/"},"modified":"2010-06-12T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T13:04:00","slug":"a-most-amazing-time-to-be-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/12\/a-most-amazing-time-to-be-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"A Most Amazing Time to be Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I am sitting in the air-conditioned comfort of my study before a magic box.&#0160; By means of this &#39;box,&#39; and without stirring from my chair, I did the following this morning:&#0160; engaged in world-wide electronic correspondence; searched for, found,&#0160; downloaded and printed out an obscure&#0160;19th&#0160;century article from&#0160;the&#0160; JSTOR database; entered the &#39;card&#39; catalogs of a couple of libraries; played and analyzed chess via the Internet Chess Club; viewed and listened to an old speech by Trotsky via YouTube; discovered and enjoyed an old tune I hadn&#39;t heard in 30 years via the same YouTube; published my thoughts to the world via my weblog; received and responded to comments from readers; got the directions to a local German restaurant; worked on an article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">And you don&#39;t think the Western culture that made and makes possible this marvellous technology is worth defending?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting in the air-conditioned comfort of my study before a magic box.&#0160; By means of this &#39;box,&#39; and without stirring from my chair, I did the following this morning:&#0160; engaged in world-wide electronic correspondence; searched for, found,&#0160; downloaded and printed out an obscure&#0160;19th&#0160;century article from&#0160;the&#0160; JSTOR database; entered the &#39;card&#39; catalogs of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/12\/a-most-amazing-time-to-be-alive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Most Amazing Time to be Alive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}