{"id":712,"date":"2008-07-29T22:15:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T04:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/?p=712"},"modified":"2008-07-29T22:15:30","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T04:15:30","slug":"we-all-agreed-that-we-really-dont-know-what-will-happen-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/we-all-agreed-that-we-really-dont-know-what-will-happen-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We all agreed that we really don&#8217;t know what will happen in the future&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a small town in the middle of Iowa. Part of being in a small town means you have a little book club consisting entirely of little old ladies that get together once a month to talk about whatever it is little old ladies read and discuss.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what possessed the little old ladies in my small town to read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_children_of_men\">The Children of Men<\/a>&#8220;, but I have nothing but the utmost respect for them attempting to read something that is borderline hardcore science fiction. I suppose the accompanying book club report in our town newspaper could give us a pretty good idea of how they fared.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-711\" src=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/book_club.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yep, that pretty much says it all, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a small town in the middle of Iowa. Part of being in a small town means you have a little book club consisting entirely of little old ladies that get together once a month to talk about whatever it is little old ladies read and discuss. I don&#8217;t know what possessed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[603,450,604,384,116],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-book-club","tag-literature-2","tag-little-old-ladies","tag-newspapers","tag-science-fiction","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}