{"id":136,"date":"2013-07-12T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T15:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2014-01-30T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T21:30:14","slug":"136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/136\/","title":{"rendered":"Views of the future from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-137\" alt=\"scan0003\" src=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan0003-300x177.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan0003-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan0003-1024x604.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan0003-624x368.jpg 624w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan0003.jpg 1347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fascinating series of illustrations from about 1890&#8217;s; &#8216;France In The Year 2ooo&#8217;. The illustrators tried to imagine a century ahead &#8212; interesting how they could not see that social mores might change; our underwater siren has long skirts. And were apparently not able to understand the effects of underwater skirt-drifting and croquet-ball hitting.<\/p>\n<p>There are a good number of these imagingings, just use Google\/Bing images &#8216;France In The Year 2000&#8217;. Thus it is with sci-fi, imagining the future, we are always really stuck in our own time, especially in terms of social stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating series of illustrations from about 1890&#8217;s; &#8216;France In The Year 2ooo&#8217;. The illustrators tried to imagine a century ahead &#8212; interesting how they could not see that social mores might change; our underwater siren has long skirts. And were apparently not able to understand the effects of underwater skirt-drifting and croquet-ball hitting. There are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}