{"id":182521,"date":"2015-08-24T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/24\/we-live-in-remarkable-times\/"},"modified":"2015-08-24T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T11:54:00","slug":"we-live-in-remarkable-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/24\/we-live-in-remarkable-times\/","title":{"rendered":"We Live in Remarkable Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was getting off the Metro on the way to work, and, not for the first time, noticed the green light underneath the escalator.<\/p>\n<p>So I fired up search on my phone, &#8220;Why is there a green light under an escalator?&#8221; and immediately found the answer:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/columns\/read\/779\/why-are-there-green-lights-under-escalators\">the lights are there to limn the edges of the steps<\/a>, so as to reduce the possibility off placing one&#8217;s feet between stairs, which might cause a fall.<\/p>\n<p>This is a technical development that was unimaginable to the most technologically forward looking science fiction author just 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Of course those same authors had me commuting to work with a jet-pack, which has not yet happened.<\/p>\n<p>I still want that jet-pack,  damn it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Posted via mobile.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was getting off the Metro on the way to work, and, not for the first time, noticed the green light underneath the escalator. So I fired up search on my phone, &#8220;Why is there a green light under an escalator?&#8221; and immediately found the answer: the lights are there to limn the edges of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997,1171,1025,1035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-science-fiction","category-technology","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}