{"id":121,"date":"2005-12-12T20:09:12","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T03:09:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-12-12T20:10:51","modified_gmt":"2005-12-12T20:10:51","slug":"the_future_from_a_distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2005\/the_future_from_a_distance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future from a Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/34\/73002307_4d0cf911d9_m.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"5\" \/>Allow me to wax philosophical for a moment.  I&#8217;m in my early twenties, and I&#8217;m experiencing daily surges of hope that I can make a positive impact on the world.  These surges often arrive coupled with elaborate plans for how I can devote my life to large-scale contributions to the cause of my dreams&#8211;a cause which changes every few weeks.Nearly anyone in their forties could take one look at me and say, &#8220;I remember that phase.  She&#8217;ll grow out of it.&#8221;Thus, I think I need to focus my energies less on scheming, and more on building a life that encourages rather than discourages more scheming.  Because if I can hold onto my idealism for at least the next ten years, I should at some point in that time become adequately equipped to pick a scheme and carry it out full force.In the meantime, I&#8217;m collecting creative idealists to help me build my future Ethical Empire.  Send me your r\u00c3\u00a9sum\u00c3\u00a9 and personal statement for consideration.Or just tell me you&#8217;re in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.Allow me to wax philosophical for a moment. I&#8217;m in my early twenties, and I&#8217;m experiencing daily surges of hope that I can make a positive impact on the world. These surges often arrive coupled with elaborate plans for how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}