{"id":919,"date":"2008-12-28T16:23:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T20:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=919"},"modified":"2008-12-31T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T00:50:09","slug":"everytopicintheuniverseexceptignorancecom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/12\/28\/everytopicintheuniverseexceptignorancecom\/","title":{"rendered":"EveryTopicInTheUniverseExcept&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am constantly amazed by the <strong>froward march <\/strong>of technology \u00b7 to a beat\u00a0\u00b7 you can&#8217;t touch.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 So when it was decided to solve the world&#8217;s problems by allowing children and people to collaborate on every topic in the world, except <a href=\"http:\/\/wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ignorance\">war<\/a>, I thought that was pretty fantastic.\u00a0 OLPC is a step in that direction &#8211; Much as I have tried to do every <strong>imaginable <\/strong>thing with my XO,\u00a0 war is right there in the small of my conceptual back that I just can&#8217;t scratch&#8230; even with the XO&#8217;s ears locked pointy-side out.<\/p>\n<p>So you can Imagine my delight when that most famous of all <a href=\"http:\/\/wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beatles\"><strong>Beatles<\/strong><\/a>, childhood idol John Lennon, dropped by to support this idea.\u00a0 And this wasn&#8217;t <em>any<\/em> John Lennon, it was Reanimated John Lennon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everytopicintheuniverseexceptchickens.com\/\">the most accomodating <strong>instance<\/strong> of John Lennon in the known universe<\/a> (easily identifiable by the glint of sunlight passing across his cheek when he grins).<\/p>\n<p>He was captured on tape <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4b4GkGMiBDQ\">speaking reanimatedly<\/a> about changing the world.\u00a0 Spooky!\u00a0 Before I could catch him to <strong>ask<\/strong> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zPC2rbQG--U\">skills of peace<\/a>, he was gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am constantly amazed by the froward march of technology \u00b7 to a beat\u00a0\u00b7 you can&#8217;t touch.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 So when it was decided to solve the world&#8217;s problems by allowing children and people to collaborate on every topic in the world, except war, I thought that was pretty fantastic.\u00a0 OLPC is a step in that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[216,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly-by-wire","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-eP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}