{"id":57703,"date":"2017-05-24T19:43:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T02:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/ive-just-returned-from-some-busy-travels-and-im-still-dealing-with-my-own-fathers-recent-death-so-im-a-bit-late-with-this-post-but-legendary-futurist-jacque-fresc"},"modified":"2017-05-24T19:43:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T02:43:10","slug":"ive-just-returned-from-some-busy-travels-and-im-still-dealing-with-my-own-fathers-recent-death-so-im-a-bit-late-with-this-post-but-legendary-futurist-jacque-fresc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/ive-just-returned-from-some-busy-travels-and-im-still-dealing-with-my-own-fathers-recent-death-so-im-a-bit-late-with-this-post-but-legendary-futurist-jacque-fresc","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve just returned from some busy travels and I\u2019m still dealing with my own father\u2019s recent death, so I\u2019m a bit late with this post, but legendary futurist Jacque Fresco passed away last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ive-just-returned-from-some-busy-travels-and-im-still-dealing-with-my-own-fathers-recent-death-so-im-a-bit-late-with-this-post-but-legendary-futurist-jacque-fresc.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was 101 years old. I had the honor to meet Jacque and Roxanne Meadows last year at The Venus Project in Florida. I wrote an extensive article for Vice Motherboard on Jacque and the Resource-based economy: <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/eliminating-money-taxes-and-ownership-will-bring-forth-technoutopia\">https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/eliminating-money\u2026chnoutopia<\/a> And Now This Future did a video on my visit with him that now has 14 million views and over 180,000 Facebook shares: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NowThisFuture\/videos\/1500983249942850\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NowThisFuture\/videos\/1500983249942850\/<\/a> I\u2019m grateful I met Jacque. He was an amazing person! And his important work will live on.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=755726407934241&set=gm.10155659101678455&type=3&theater\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=755726407934241&set=...=3&theater<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was 101 years old. I had the honor to meet Jacque and Roxanne Meadows last year at The Venus Project in Florida. I wrote an extensive article for Vice Motherboard on Jacque and the Resource-based economy: https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/eliminating-money\u2026chnoutopia And Now This Future did a video on my visit with him that now has 14 million [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}