{"id":6517,"date":"2024-05-29T23:44:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T21:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/?p=6517"},"modified":"2024-05-29T23:44:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T21:44:43","slug":"a-foreboding-of-carl-sagan-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/2024\/05\/29\/a-foreboding-of-carl-sagan-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"A Foreboding of Carl Sagan 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-20.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"258\" height=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-20.png\" alt=\"Carl Sagan\" class=\"wp-image-6518\" style=\"width:213px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have a foreboding of an America in my children&#8217;s or grandchildren&#8217;s time &#8211; when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what&#8217;s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI have a foreboding of an America in my children&#8217;s or grandchildren&#8217;s time &#8211; when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/2024\/05\/29\/a-foreboding-of-carl-sagan-1995\/\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17,72],"tags":[503],"class_list":["post-6517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citat","category-foto","tag-carl-sagan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6519,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions\/6519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henriksundstrom.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}