{"id":788,"date":"2008-11-10T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2008-11-10T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T23:30:00","slug":"and-good-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"And Good Luck."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Obama beat me to the punch in becoming the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/TECH\/11\/10\/obama.wired\/index.html\">internet president<\/a>.  Change.gov sounds like a fine plan for doing what the nets were built for &#8212; getting info from one person to another.  I&#8217;m all for it.  Also, seems like a fine way to tag people who might try anything untoward.  And then, of course, it&#8217;s only a matter of time before people start getting arrested for things they email to the President-Elect.  And once some evil overlords take over, an extensive digital record of people&#8217;s opinons can easily be scoured for dissenters.  We&#8217;ll have ourselves an old-timey central-government-fueled witch-hunt based on these emails.<\/p>\n<p>Or blog posts&#8230;.  dang it!  Well, I&#8217;ve assumed since age seventeen that once the new order of hyper-christian dictators begins I&#8217;ll be among the first on the block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Obama beat me to the punch in becoming the first internet president. Change.gov sounds like a fine plan for doing what the nets were built for &#8212; getting info from one person to another. I&#8217;m all for it. Also, seems like a fine way to tag people who might try anything untoward. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}