{"id":1976,"date":"2015-06-26T11:51:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T15:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2015-06-26T11:51:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T15:51:37","slug":"changing-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2015\/06\/26\/changing-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This points to a LONG article but it&#8217;s something you should read anyway. The title is exceedingly misleading &#8211; the author doesn&#8217;t actually get into talking about Tesla and Musk and his cars until more than halfway in! On the way there are lots\u00c2\u00a0of things to see and think about. Many well-thought-out graphics, links to sources and citations, and good footnotes, too.<\/p>\n<p>Besides being interested in the subject material, something else that helped me breeze through the article\u00c2\u00a0is that I liked the writing style. You may or may not agree.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on your interest and\/or free time might take you a couple of sittings to work through this. Seriously.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So if the car industry has a cupcake and its parents are forcing it to eat vegetables, the oil industry has a cupcake but its parents are forcing it to eat razor blades. The car industry will resist the veggies and have a little tantrum before grudgingly giving in\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe oil industry will furiously try to gouge the parents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 eyes out in resistance because for him, this is life and death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"waitbutwhy.com: How Tesla Will Change The World\" href=\"http:\/\/waitbutwhy.com\/2015\/06\/how-tesla-will-change-your-life.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1977\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/how-tesla-will-change-the-world.png\" alt=\"How Tesla Will Change The World\" width=\"478\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/how-tesla-will-change-the-world.png 478w, https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/how-tesla-will-change-the-world-300x143.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"waitbutwhy.com: How Tesla Will Change The World\" href=\"http:\/\/waitbutwhy.com\/2015\/06\/how-tesla-will-change-your-life.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/waitbutwhy.com\/2015\/06\/how-tesla-will-change-your-life.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This points to a LONG article but it&#8217;s something you should read anyway. The title is exceedingly misleading &#8211; the author doesn&#8217;t actually get into talking about Tesla and Musk and his cars until more than halfway in! On the way there are lots\u00c2\u00a0of things to see and think about. Many well-thought-out graphics, links to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2015\/06\/26\/changing-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Changing the World<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}