{"id":562,"date":"2007-07-05T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/07\/05\/the-sound-of-the-future-today\/"},"modified":"2007-07-05T15:00:44","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T15:00:44","slug":"the-sound-of-the-future-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/07\/05\/the-sound-of-the-future-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The sound of the future, today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing sounds more like the future to me than a hybrid British accent &#8212; someone speaking with an accent that&#8217;s part English, part something else.<br \/>\nAt the Amsterdam airport we hear a woman on the PA with an accent that&#8217;s 40% Dutch, 60% BBC. Over and over, in fabulously layered tones, she announces: &#8220;Passenger [X] for [destination y], you are delaying your flight. We will proceed to [pause] offload your luggage.&#8221; If I close my eyes, it could be the year 2417.<br \/>\nI keep waiting for her to say &#8220;Passenger Davis for Titan, you are delaying your flight. We will proceed to [pause] vaporize your luggage.&#8221;<br \/>\nStill waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing sounds more like the future to me than a hybrid British accent &#8212; someone speaking with an accent that&#8217;s part English, part something else. At the Amsterdam airport we hear a woman on the PA with an accent that&#8217;s 40% Dutch, 60% BBC. Over and over, in fabulously layered tones, she announces: &#8220;Passenger [X] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-log"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}