{"id":73,"date":"2004-03-19T23:27:16","date_gmt":"2004-03-20T04:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/index.php\/golden-plates\/"},"modified":"2004-03-19T23:27:16","modified_gmt":"2004-03-20T04:27:16","slug":"golden-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/19\/golden-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the golden plates of our time?  A thousand years ago, if you wanted to make sure information was going to be around for your children&#8217;s children&#8217;s children, you took out your chisel and started hacking away on metal plates&#8211;preferably golden.  <\/p>\n<p>What are my options today?  I have several thousand digital pictures, a digital journal, a weblog and pretty much every hour of work I&#8217;ve done for the last 5 years are all in digital format.  From what I&#8217;ve read, I can expect a hard drive to last maybe 10 years, CD?s not much longer&#8230; what else is there?  Are all my captured memories, all my work and all my writings going to be around for my grandkids?  Should I stop using a computer and start learning how to etch metal?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I sound nostalgic, but really&#8230; how do you make sure something digital lasts longer than the medium it&#8217;s on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the golden plates of our time? A thousand years ago, if you wanted to make sure information was going to be around for your children&#8217;s children&#8217;s children, you took out your chisel and started hacking away on metal plates&#8211;preferably golden. What are my options today? I have several thousand digital pictures, a digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-1b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}