{"id":20723,"date":"2016-05-18T19:54:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T00:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20723"},"modified":"2016-05-18T19:54:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T00:54:55","slug":"retrotopia-a-distant-scent-of-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20723","title":{"rendered":"Retrotopia: A Distant Scent of Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/thearchdruidreport.blogspot.ca\/2016\/05\/retrotopia-distant-scent-of-blood.html\">Retrotopia: A Distant Scent of Blood<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>This is the sixteenth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator, having recovered from a bout of the flu, goes for a walk, meets someone he\u2019s encountered before, and begins to understand why the Lakeland Republic took the path it did&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>***********<\/p>\n<p>The next morning I felt pretty good, all things considered, and got up not too much later than usual. It was bright and clear, as nice an autumn day as you could ask for. I knew I had two days to make up and a lot of discussions and negotiations with the Lakeland Republic government still waited, but I\u2019d been stuck in my room for two days and wanted to stretch my legs a bit before I headed back into another conference room at the Capitol. I compromised by calling Melanie Berger and arranging to meet with her and some other people from Meeker\u2019s staff after lunch. That done, once I\u2019d finished my morning routine, I headed down the stairs and out onto the street.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t have any particular destination in mind, just fresh air and a bit of exercise, and two or three random turns brought me within sight of the Capitol. That sent half a dozen trains of thought scurrying off in a bunch of directions, and one of them reminded me that I hadn\u2019t seen a scrap of news for better than two days. Another couple of blocks and I got to Kaufer\u2019s News, where the same scruffy-looking woman was sitting on the same wooden stool, surrounded by the same snowstorm of newspapers and magazines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retrotopia: A Distant Scent of Blood This is the sixteenth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator, having recovered from a bout of the flu, goes for a walk, meets someone he\u2019s encountered before, and begins to understand why the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3463,311,341,1758,13891,8722],"class_list":["post-20723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-archdruid-report","tag-fiction","tag-future","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-narrative-fiction","tag-retrotopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20724,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20723\/revisions\/20724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}