{"id":271,"date":"2005-05-03T17:34:11","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T01:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2005-05-03T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T01:34:11","slug":"time-traveler-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/03\/time-traveler-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Traveler Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This whole idea is pretty hilarious (and awesome).  Schedule a <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/adorai\/timetraveler\/\">time traveler convention<\/a>, publicize it well, and hope people from the future show up.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Can&#8217;t the time travelers just hear about it from the attendees, and travel back in time to attend?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, they can! In fact, we think this will happen, and the small number of adventurous time travelers who do attend will go back to their &#8220;home times&#8221; and tell all their friends to come, causing the convention to become a Woodstock-like event that defines humanity forever.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we of the present (2005) don&#8217;t have time travel, and so we only have one chance at observing the convention. If the time travelers don&#8217;t leave us their secrets, we won&#8217;t be able to go back in time and see our convention in all its glory unless it is publicized in advance. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This whole idea is pretty hilarious (and awesome). Schedule a time traveler convention, publicize it well, and hope people from the future show up. Can&#8217;t the time travelers just hear about it from the attendees, and travel back in time to attend? Yes, they can! In fact, we think this will happen, and the small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-4n","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}