{"id":18768,"date":"2013-12-24T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T15:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/well-look-at-it-this-way-the-year-2014-is-the\/"},"modified":"2013-12-24T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T15:45:04","slug":"well-look-at-it-this-way-the-year-2014-is-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/well-look-at-it-this-way-the-year-2014-is-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Well, look at it this way. The year 2014 is the centenary of World War One. When you hang out in Europe like I do, you stumble over the rubble of World War One, quite a lot. Humanity was in a truly dreadful place, one hundred years ago. The world situation of humanity was truly bitter and hateful and and deadly, and, well, here we are anyway.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the big picture. There are a lot of times and places where \u201chumanity\u201d is headed in no place in particular. Those scenes interest me. Like, little European cultures with weird minority languages, who are just hanging around in obscure mountain valleys, making clay pots and singing, and knifing each other on Tuesdays. You might think that a chrome-and-matte-black science fiction writer would lack a cordial interest in penny-ante cultural scenes like that, but they have their merits. It\u2019s not like we all line up and dash like mad for some end-goal called \u201cThe Future.\u201d There\u2019s no victory-condition for being human. The future is just a kind of history that hasn\u2019t happened yet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.slashdot.org\/story\/13\/12\/23\/157257\/interview-bruce-sterling-answers-your-questions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Interview: Bruce Sterling Answers Your Questions &#8211; Slashdot<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/slavin.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">slavin<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, look at it this way. The year 2014 is the centenary of World War One. When you hang out in Europe like I do, you stumble over the rubble of World War One, quite a lot. Humanity was in a truly dreadful place, one hundred years ago. The world situation of humanity was truly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4SI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}