{"id":28629,"date":"2026-08-04T19:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28629"},"modified":"2026-08-04T19:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:55:30","slug":"if-you-could-record-everything-that-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28629","title":{"rendered":"If you could record everything that happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you could record everything that happens in the course of every day. Further suppose that you could have that information automatically indexed and played back at will, in a way that is contextually searchable (eg: discussions about movies).<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, this seems like a formidable super power. On the other hand, having the ability to forget about things &#8212; and the ability to truthfully <i>say<\/i> that you&#8217;ve forgotten about things &#8212; seems like something we would not want to lose.<\/p>\n<p>Which would you choose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you could record everything that happens in the course of every day. Further suppose that you could have that information automatically indexed and played back at will, in a way that is contextually searchable (eg: discussions about movies). On the one hand, this seems like a formidable super power. On the other hand, having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28629\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If you could record everything that happens&#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\/28629"}],"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=28629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28630,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28629\/revisions\/28630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}