{"id":16265,"date":"2009-11-24T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T23:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=16265"},"modified":"2009-11-24T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T23:15:23","slug":"is-it-too-early-to-start-with-all-the-decade-retrospectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/is-it-too-early-to-start-with-all-the-decade-retrospectives.html","title":{"rendered":"Is it too early to start with all the decade retrospectives?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently not. Though we won’t belabor the “does a decade run 0-9 or 1-10” debate from ’99 again. Here’s Newsweek<\/em>‘s retrospective*:<\/p>\n

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Not a bad summary, though I’m always dubious about what get picked over the last year, given the lack of perspective (and the chance that space aliens will arrive in mid-December).<\/p>\n

What always strikes me most from early on is (a) “that was that long ago?” and (b) “that was that recently?”<\/p>\n

*And isn’t it interesting that a significant difference from the last decade’s retrospective is that we’ll see a ton of these on YouTube? Wonder what we’ll be using in ’19 — holographic implant chips? Or charcoal on doghide …<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently not. Though we won’t belabor the “does a decade run 0-9 or 1-10” debate from ’99 again. Here’s Newsweek‘s retrospective*: Not a bad summary, though I’m always dubious about what get picked over the last year, given the lack of perspective (and the chance that space aliens will arrive in mid-December). What always strikes … Continue reading “Is it too early to start with all the decade retrospectives?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-fourth-estate","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6802,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/28\/aught_isms.html","url_meta":{"origin":16265,"position":0},"title":"Aught-isms","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Dec-04 5:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So what are we going to call this decade? 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