{"id":13309,"date":"2011-08-25T09:25:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T14:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=13309"},"modified":"2011-08-25T09:54:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T14:54:05","slug":"a-signpost-for-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=13309","title":{"rendered":"A signpost for our time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO of Apple, he announced this yesterday to the world, and the world responded. One of the greatest innovators of our time, a leader unparalleled, a man who did his own thing and we, the people, were the beneficiaries of his vision. Don&#8217;t yet underestimate what his technological creations did to open up the world to a global dialogue that is yet to be digested and understood.<\/p>\n<p>I hung up today after an hour on the phone with a long-time source of mine who listed out all the major changes that were happening around his world and I thought that change in and of itself isn&#8217;t bad, it&#8217;s just challenging.<\/p>\n<p>As Ovid said in his\u00a0<em>Metamorphoses<\/em>, \u201cThere is nothing constant in the universe.\u00a0\u00a0All ebb and flow, and every shape that\u2019s born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO of Apple, he announced this yesterday to the world, and the world responded. One of the greatest innovators of our time, a leader unparalleled, a man who did his own thing and we, the people, were the beneficiaries of his vision. Don&#8217;t yet underestimate what his technological creations did to open up the world to a global dialogue that is yet to be digested and understood. I hung&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-3sF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13311,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13309\/revisions\/13311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}