{"id":338,"date":"2016-07-02T16:01:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonelkon.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2016-07-03T08:34:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T08:34:28","slug":"distopia-dat-topia-for-10000-what-is-your-vision-of-the-world-in-ten-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/distopia-dat-topia-for-10000-what-is-your-vision-of-the-world-in-ten-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Distopia&#8230; Dat Topia! For \u00a310,000: What is YOUR vision of the world in ten years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><strong>Brexit = Regrettit. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In ten years time things may be fine. We will be the little Island of England, with little Wales fighting for independence. Big Scotland will be a wealthy independent nation to the north. A model of good governance. Ireland will still be fighting its civil war or will be an independent republic. We will make our money from tourism as people trickle in to see our delightful archaic ceremonies and stare at the King. Meanwhile in Europe, the shattered remains of the European Union will be at war again, as a variety of fascist dictators fight for dominance. Everybody in Europe will be white, as a result of the racist holocaust. In Africa and the Middle East there will be the radioactive remains of what once were cities and countries, destroyed by Putin and North Korea. The pollution clouds, like the plague, will devastate vast areas of the world and the United States will have split up into warring countries in which lunatics armed to the teeth try to shoot everybody in sight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What is your vision of 10 years time? POST HERE in comments, not more than 250 words. If you are at least 90% correct I will award you \u00a310,000. Which I predict will be worth about \u00a310 in today&#8217;s money. RULES: your predictions must be related to main political\/economic\/environmental issues! Predicting &#8220;there will still be an ocean&#8221; will not cut it. The Judge&#8217;s decision is final! And arbitrary! Tough!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brexit = Regrettit. In ten years time things may be fine. We will be the little Island of England, with little Wales fighting for independence. Big Scotland will be a wealthy independent nation to the north. A model of good&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}