{"id":368,"date":"2008-11-18T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T20:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2008-11-18T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T20:59:13","slug":"why-i-joined-the-long-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/18\/why-i-joined-the-long-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Joined the Long Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading the book, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anathem\">Anathem<\/a>, as well as siding with the idea that the calmest and most rational way to lead life is with the long view. I am not saying that there is no magic to being in the now. Personally, modern society is too focused on the now and the near future instead of the long view.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/longow.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/chartercard.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I joined <a href=\"http:\/\/longnow.org\/\">The Long Now Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as a member, I get this cool looking, stainless steel card, preferred seating at seminars, and access to their videos. Kinda sounds like a pr0n site. lol.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s great to support an organization that has debates about biotechnology, and future upcoming crises, e.g. the environment, food and energy shortages, and historical forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading the book, Anathem, as well as siding with the idea that the calmest and most rational way to lead life is with the long view. I am not saying that there is no magic to being in the now. Personally, modern society is too focused on the now and the near future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-long-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}