{"id":17059,"date":"2014-12-27T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17059"},"modified":"2014-12-27T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T17:01:00","slug":"flash-back-to-flash-forward-five-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/27\/flash-back-to-flash-forward-five-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash back to Flash Forward five years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My October 2009 <em>Flash Forward<\/em> interview conducted by Mike Zipser recently got tossed onto YouTube, so you no longer have to search for it in their archives. Which means it&#8217;s easier for you to see who I was and what I thought I was doing with my life five years ago. (As opposed to who I was and what I thought I was doing with my life twenty-four years ago, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2011\/12\/26\/step-into-the-time-machine-and-see-what-i-looked-and-sounded-like-in-1990\/\">John Pomeranz interviewed me<\/a> for the same show in 1990.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TcTDHAhNksE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As I watch this, the one thing I wish I could go back in time to whisper into my ear is&#8212;Chill out, dude! Relax.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how I sound in that video to you, but to me, I seem to be in a race, talking much too quickly, and rushing to squeeze as many words as possible into the time allotted, which I think can only unsettle an audience.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe none of that is there, and my reaction is simply the one we all tend to have to the sounds of our own voices.<\/p>\n<p>But I think not. What do <em>you<\/em> think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My October 2009 Flash Forward interview conducted by Mike Zipser recently got tossed onto YouTube, so you no longer have to search for it in their archives. Which means it&#8217;s easier for you to see who I was and what I thought I was doing with my life five years ago. (As opposed to who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[575,491],"class_list":["post-17059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flash-forward","tag-mike-zipser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17059"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17120,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17059\/revisions\/17120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}