{"id":35,"date":"2007-01-15T07:18:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T12:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/35"},"modified":"2008-02-14T04:04:37","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T09:04:37","slug":"question-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/35","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another new feature, though I think it actually started with last week&#8217;s posting, <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/16>Optimism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll go back to cribbing questions from <a href=http:\/\/edge.org\/>The Edge Foundation<\/a> pretty soon, but I was inspired by <a href=http:\/\/www.futureme.org\/>this website<\/a> that lets you send an e-mail to yourself in the future.  Believe me, my future self no more wants to hear from me than I want to hear from the kid I used to be.  Give me a website that lets me send an e-mail to my past self, and I&#8217;m there.<\/p>\n<p>Until such a website exists, I will offer that service here, though I cannot guarantee delivery.  But if we post our responses in this thread, we just might learn something new about each other and the human condition.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m not talking about time travel science fiction ideas like &#8220;Bet on the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series&#8221; or &#8220;Warn everyone about 9\/11.&#8221;  You can&#8217;t divulge information about the future for your past self to act on.  But you can send an e-mail, and expect it to be accepted as authentic.  So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you could send an e-mail to yourself in the past, how far back would you send it, and what would you want to say?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--df26b9f97ca11f11be4c05ce8a891abd--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another new feature, though I think it actually started with last week&#8217;s posting, Optimism. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll go back to cribbing questions from The Edge Foundation pretty soon, but I was inspired by this website that lets you send an e-mail to yourself in the future. Believe me, my future self no more wants to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}