{"id":3859,"date":"2007-11-16T12:19:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T19:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/16\/open-link-comment-thread\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T12:19:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T19:39:16","slug":"open-link-comment-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3859","title":{"rendered":"Open Link &amp; Comment Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mandolin pointed this out to me:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/livejournal_images\/no_one_walks_in_2000.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>105 years ago, they thought everyone would be able to afford Segways. The gender roles in the illustration are not surprising, but I always find that sort of thing ironic in folks who are thinking about future changes (see also, Ray Bradbury&#8217;s Mars stories). And speaking for myself, I wish that everyone still wore bowlers nowadays.<\/p>\n<p>I like the detail that all the sidewalks have sloped edges.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/blag.xkcd.com\/2007\/09\/05\/footomobiles\/\">XKCD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, feel free to use this thread for any links or comments you want. Such as this link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.predatorylendingassociation.com\/\">the Predatory Loan Association<\/a>, suggested by <a href=\"http:\/\/moderatelyinsane.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/predatory-lending.html\">Sailorman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandolin pointed this out to me: 105 years ago, they thought everyone would be able to afford Segways. The gender roles in the illustration are not surprising, but I always find that sort of thing ironic in folks who are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3859\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}