{"id":2169,"date":"2009-05-01T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2009-05-18T01:33:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T06:33:01","slug":"international-month-of-futures-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=2169","title":{"rendered":"International Month of Futures Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/future-highway-01.jpg\" alt=\"future-highway-01\" title=\"future-highway-01\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/future-highway-01.jpg 400w, https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/future-highway-01-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 1958 when Ward Kimball produced &#8220;Magic Highway, U.S.A.&#8221; for Disneyland, the vision of the future looked a lot like&#8230;1958. Aesthetically speaking, that is. Much of the technology still waits to be invented. This month&#8217;s Random threads celebrate how imaginations of the past portrayed the future, but in the present, of course, you may be as random as you like.<\/p>\n<p>For the curious, an 8:47-minute excerpt of &#8220;Magic Highway, U.S.A.&#8221; may be found on YouTube:<br \/>\nyoutube.com\/watch?v=F6pUMlPBMQA<\/p>\n<p>(<b>Users&#8217; Manual:<\/b> Obey <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?page_id=18\">The Rules<\/a>. Consult <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?page_id=89\">The Guide<\/a>. Have fun!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1958 when Ward Kimball produced &#8220;Magic Highway, U.S.A.&#8221; for Disneyland, the vision of the future looked a lot like&#8230;1958. Aesthetically speaking, that is. Much of the technology still waits to be invented. This month&#8217;s Random threads celebrate how imaginations of the past portrayed the future, but in the present, of course, you may be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=2169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;International Month of Futures Past&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstuff","category-random-craziness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions\/2334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}