{"id":20867,"date":"2019-03-05T21:09:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T02:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20867"},"modified":"2019-03-05T21:09:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T02:09:07","slug":"to-our-childrens-childrens-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20867","title":{"rendered":"To our Children&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you work in developing new forms of media, you can&#8217;t help but keep one eye on the future. Many of the things you work on will amount to nothing, but every once in a while you will get it right.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to look back through history to identify times when people &#8220;got it right&#8221;. There are so many examples: movable type, the gramophone, radio transmission, projected cinema, binary digital encoding. The list goes on and on.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many of the people who developed those innovations realized that they were shifting the very course of history. I wonder how many people today know when they are doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Every once in a while someone is fortunate enough to come upon a new way of communicating that continues to echo down through the ages. What better privilege can there be, than to be able to bestow a gift to our children&#8217;s children&#8217;s children?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you work in developing new forms of media, you can&#8217;t help but keep one eye on the future. Many of the things you work on will amount to nothing, but every once in a while you will get it right. It&#8217;s interesting to look back through history to identify times when people &#8220;got it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20867\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To our Children&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Children&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20868,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20867\/revisions\/20868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}