{"id":3823,"date":"2008-03-20T07:42:50","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T12:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2008-03-20T07:42:50","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T12:42:50","slug":"thank-you-goodbye-from-columbo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2008\/03\/20\/thank-you-goodbye-from-columbo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You &amp; Goodbye From Columbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his 90th birthday last December, Arthur C. Clarke <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3qLdeEjdbWE\" target=\"_blank\">filmed himself<\/a> talking to the world from his wired residence in Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>In the middle he says,<br \/>\n&#8220;I hope that we have learned something from the most barbaric century in history &#8212; the twentieth. I would like to see us overcome our tribal factions, and begin to think and act as if we were one family. That would be real globalization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His last words in the film were, &#8220;Thank you and goodbye from Colombo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Sir Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;rakkity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his 90th birthday last December, Arthur C. Clarke filmed himself talking to the world from his wired residence in Sri Lanka In the middle he says, &#8220;I hope that we have learned something from the most barbaric century in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2008\/03\/20\/thank-you-goodbye-from-columbo-2\/\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-rakkity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}