{"id":2081,"date":"2019-06-21T20:51:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T00:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2019-06-21T20:51:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T00:51:53","slug":"re-watched-waking-life-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2019\/06\/re-watched-waking-life-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-watched WAKING LIFE last night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">This movie was a Big Deal to us back when it came out in 2001, but it hasn\u2019t necessarily aged well (\u201cOh, look, another annoying young white man talking,\u201d my wife opined near the end).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">That said, I was struck, over and over again, by how hopefully the movie is about now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Even in its cynical moments, it\u2019s hopeful about us\u2014the humans of the future\u2014in a way that feels like something midway between \u201ccharmingly quaint\u201d and \u201castoundingly, nearly nauseously, naive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I want to be like the people in this film. I want to see us the way they were certain we\u2019d be. I want to be as confident as they were that we\u2019d\u00a0at least be trying to be better tomorrow than we were yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9rg0l0hhx_4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today is Summer Solstice. Quite literally, it gets darker from here.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s try and be the people we always assumed we were, dee down inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This movie was a Big Deal to us back when it came out in 2001, but it hasn\u2019t necessarily aged well (\u201cOh, look, another annoying young white man talking,\u201d my wife opined near the end). That said, I was struck, over and over again, by how hopefully the movie is about now. Even in its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2019\/06\/re-watched-waking-life-last-night\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Re-watched WAKING LIFE last night&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[388,47,387,389,102],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}