{"id":3342,"date":"2009-05-14T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2009-05-14T23:16:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T03:16:07","slug":"timetravel-what-to-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3342","title":{"rendered":"Timetravel: What to Take?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re about to go back in time.  You&#8217;re going to land somewhere in Europe during the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High_Middle_Ages\">High Middle Ages<\/a>, in the range of 1000AD to 1300AD.  You&#8217;re standing in your house.  This trip will take you and about a loaded suitcase worth of volume. If you attempt to take more you won&#8217;t be able to predict what will be left behind.  What do you take with you?<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re going for good. This is a one-way trip.  You don&#8217;t know exactly where or when you will land within the given window, or what time of year it will be. (Let&#8217;s assume you can be confident that you&#8217;ll land on solid ground, though.  Don&#8217;t worry about appearing over the ocean. inside of rock, or 100 meters off the ground. You&#8217;ll  <em>arrive<\/em> safely.  After that it&#8217;s up to you.)    <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry about changing history.  <a href=\"?p=3367\">It&#8217;s inevitable<\/a>, so don&#8217;t go in trying to preserve the original timeline.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; what items will you put in your suitcase before you go?  What&#8217;s the plan when you get there?  <\/p>\n<p>Answers might perhaps be long.  Leave them in the comments, or put them on your blog and I&#8217;ll link back.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/north-of-south.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/surviving-time-travel.html\">Somewhere North of South<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re about to go back in time. You&#8217;re going to land somewhere in Europe during the High Middle Ages, in the range of 1000AD to 1300AD. You&#8217;re standing in your house. This trip will take you and about a loaded suitcase worth of volume. If you attempt to take more you won&#8217;t be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-3342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-what-if"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}