{"id":5963,"date":"2020-10-12T04:33:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T04:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2020-10-12T18:14:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:14:41","slug":"1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/?p=5963","title":{"rendered":"1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Royal-Futura-400-Typewriter-from-1960s1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Royal-Futura-400-Typewriter-from-1960s1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"809\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Royal-Futura-400-Typewriter-from-1960s1.jpg 809w, https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Royal-Futura-400-Typewriter-from-1960s1-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Influenced by Max Headroom and the Talking Heads, I published a series of quirky predictions which I distributed to my friends in high school. The year was 1986, and I selected 1988 (the year I would graduate, despite being only two years off) as the future time. These &#8220;predictions&#8221; were typed on a Royal Futura 400, from which I also made copies for distribution. The spelling is insufferable, though intentional, and the humor is a little darker than I had recollected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click images to view larger versions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-Typewriter-Day-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-Typewriter-Day-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"644\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-Typewriter-Day-1.jpeg 1500w, https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-Typewriter-Day-1-300x129.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-Typewriter-Day-1-1024x440.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-Typewriter-Day-1-768x330.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-Day-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-Day-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"483\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-Day-3.png 1500w, https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-Day-3-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-Day-3-1024x330.png 1024w, https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-Day-3-768x247.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-bit.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-bit.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"418\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-bit.jpeg 1500w, https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-bit-300x84.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-bit-1024x285.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/type-writer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1988-bit-768x214.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a>\n<p style='text-align:left'>&copy; 2020, Mark Adams. All rights reserved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Influenced by Max Headroom and the Talking Heads, I published a series of quirky predictions which I distributed to my friends in high school. The year was 1986,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_awef_post_faq_schema":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[130,169],"class_list":["post-5963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ephemera-2","tag-royal","tag-typing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5968,"href":"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions\/5968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/type-writer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}