{"id":1486,"date":"2026-07-30T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2026-09-07T00:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T00:04:14","slug":"a-new-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/?p=1486","title":{"rendered":"A New Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JULY 2026 &#8211; Life in the 21st century changes quickly. Artificial intelligence, evolving alliances, movements untethered from reality &#8211; headlines that sound more fiction than non. It can leave the individual at a loss for how to best approach life, their goals, and contribute effectively to the larger world. The old guard rails and promises are eroding. So much is colliding and it is unclear where the sturdy ground is to stand. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NewportSummer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1487\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NewportSummer.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NewportSummer-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NewportSummer-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>You have to learn the rules of the new game, the new environment, and the new order of things. But maybe survival has always been that way. And we are simply entering a new era. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evolve or perish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~ CS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 2026 &#8211; Life in the 21st century changes quickly. Artificial intelligence, evolving alliances, movements untethered from reality &#8211; headlines that sound more fiction than non. It can leave the individual at a loss for how to best approach life, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/?p=1486\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,50,8,212,5,37,58,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}