{"id":3517,"date":"2015-02-18T02:46:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T02:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afutureworththinkingabout.wordpress.com\/?p=2"},"modified":"2025-04-15T21:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T01:10:04","slug":"a-future-worth-thinking-about-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afutureworththinkingabout.com\/?p=3517","title":{"rendered":"A Future Worth Thinking About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This, I believe, will be the official blog space for my Patreon project, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240908235042\/http:\/\/patreon.com\/wolven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Future Worth Thinking About<\/a>.\u201d Partially because I feel need to differentiate it from the random noodling I do on Tumblr, and partially because I need a blog for that project with <em><strong>actual<\/strong><\/em> formatting tools.<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon: A post about race, institutional power dynamics, and robots!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, I believe, will be the official blog space for my Patreon project, \u201cA Future Worth Thinking About.\u201d Partially because I feel need to differentiate it from the random noodling I do on Tumblr, and partially because I need a blog for that project with actual formatting tools. 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