{"id":29718,"date":"2015-01-17T10:20:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T15:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29718"},"modified":"2015-01-17T11:34:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T16:34:45","slug":"if-anything-blade-runner-was-too-optimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/01\/17\/if-anything-blade-runner-was-too-optimistic\/","title":{"rendered":"If anything, <em>Blade Runner<\/em> was too optimistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeydevilla.com\/2015\/01\/15\/beijing-now-looks-like-blade-runner\" target=\"_blank\">Joey DeVilla<\/a> posted a few images comparing the dystopian future envisioned in <em>Blade Runner<\/em> with the modern cityscape of Beijing:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><div id=\"attachment_29719\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/beijing-is-blade-runner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29719\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/beijing-is-blade-runner-502x640.jpg\" alt=\"Click to embiggenate\" width=\"502\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-large wp-image-29719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/beijing-is-blade-runner-502x640.jpg 502w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/beijing-is-blade-runner-118x150.jpg 118w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/beijing-is-blade-runner-471x600.jpg 471w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/beijing-is-blade-runner.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to embiggenate<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The crowded, dirty Los Angeles of 2019 featured in the 1982 film <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blade_Runner\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Blade Runner<\/em><\/a> looks rather pristine compared to the real-life Beijing of 2015.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joey DeVilla posted a few images comparing the dystopian future envisioned in Blade Runner with the modern cityscape of Beijing: The crowded, dirty Los Angeles of 2019 featured in the 1982 film Blade Runner looks rather pristine compared to the real-life Beijing of 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[22,28],"tags":[733,686,122,443],"class_list":["post-29718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-media","tag-beijing","tag-futurism","tag-movies","tag-pollution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7Jk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29723,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29718\/revisions\/29723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}