{"id":1530,"date":"2014-08-05T23:45:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T03:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2014-08-05T23:45:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T03:45:59","slug":"get-better-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"Get better&#8230; in a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sickme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1532\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sickme.jpg\" alt=\"sickme\" width=\"700\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sickme.jpg 700w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sickme-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We look back now, at things that happened in history, and say\u2026 \u201cWell, what the crap?\u201d\u00a0 Especially in things of medicine and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Jump back 150 years or so.\u00a0 Say to the time of the Civil War in the United States.\u00a0 We were doing some very backward things\u2026 as general practice.\u00a0 In medicine\u2026 doctors would saw off limbs with rusty blades\u2026 or they would bleed people to cure them of their bad blood.\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, I\u2019ll get away from the gruesome.\u00a0 But we know better about these things now.<\/p>\n<p>There were no cars.\u00a0 Cameras were just getting started.\u00a0 Electric in homes?\u00a0 Nadda.\u00a0 Telephones?\u00a0 Not yet.\u00a0 So in a relatively short period of time, we have had major advancements, in science, medicine, and technology.\u00a0 Our understanding of how the world works has increased.<\/p>\n<p>Now then\u2026. jump ahead another 150 years.\u00a0 Let\u2019s say to\u00a0 2164.\u00a0 The year of the Great Orange Crops in Canada, and of course&#8230; the unfortunate Rye Toast Rebellion in Japan.\u00a0 But.\u00a0 In a century and a half&#8230;. \u00a0 we will know things then that we can\u2019t even imagine now.\u00a0 People of that time\u2026 will look back at us\u2026. and say\u2026 \u201cWell, what the crap?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They will chuckle that we were using things like digital cameras, and cell phones.\u00a0 Computer connected by wires, and cars that burned gasoline.\u00a0 They will be astounded that we couldn\u2019t even come up with a cure for the Common Cold.<\/p>\n<p>Which is what I have.\u00a0 Not the cure\u2026 but the gosh darn cold.<\/p>\n<p>If only I had the Crystal Ball revved up tonight to peer into the future\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The future ain&#8217;t what it used to be.\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0 Yogi Berra<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We look back now, at things that happened in history, and say\u2026 \u201cWell, what the crap?\u201d\u00a0 Especially in things of medicine and technology. Jump back 150 years or so.\u00a0 Say to the time of the Civil War in the United States.\u00a0 We were doing some very backward things\u2026 as general practice.\u00a0 In medicine\u2026 doctors would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}