{"id":533,"date":"2005-11-11T05:05:43","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T10:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=533"},"modified":"2005-11-11T05:05:43","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T10:05:43","slug":"time-traveller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/11\/11\/time-traveller\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Traveller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real or hoax?<br \/>\nWhile reading a story on Slashdot.org about an improper request for a non-existant version of the Linux kernel, someone made a joke about John Titor, time traveller.  As per usual on Slashdot, a fellow commentor then posted a link to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Titor\">John Titor entry on Wikipedia<\/a>.  After reading the entry, I find myself wondering who was really behind it and why.  Is it simply a Toynbee Convector?  (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=fantasistnet%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=031832850X%2526tag=fantasistnet%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/031832850X%25253FSubscriptionId=0EMV44A9A5YT1RVDGZ82\" title=\"View product details at Amazon\">The Toynbee Convector<\/a> is a book by Ray Bradbury which contains a story of the same name.  In the story, someone fakes going to the future to get folks to develop things to create that near-utopian future.)  Was it someone writing a bit of interactive fiction?  Or, was it simply a hoax to sell a book? (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=fantasistnet%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=1591964369%2526tag=fantasistnet%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/1591964369%25253FSubscriptionId=0EMV44A9A5YT1RVDGZ82\" title=\"View product details at Amazon\">John Titor A Time Traveler\\&#8217;s Tale<\/a>)<br \/>\nWho knows?  Who cares?  It&#8217;s fun to look at and contemplate the intricacy of the story.<br \/>\nAnd, of course, it&#8217;s Friday, so click the link!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real or hoax? While reading a story on Slashdot.org about an improper request for a non-existant version of the Linux kernel, someone made a joke about John Titor, time traveller. As per usual on Slashdot, a fellow commentor then posted a link to the John Titor entry on Wikipedia. After reading the entry, I find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,27,3,28,30],"tags":[710,261,709],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantastic-and-surreal","category-fun","category-modern-fantasy","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction","tag-john-titor","tag-linux","tag-ray-bradbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}