{"id":138,"date":"2008-04-28T13:54:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T17:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/2008\/04\/28\/robots-of-retropolis-unite-the-fraternal-league-of-robotic-persons\/"},"modified":"2008-04-28T13:54:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T17:54:18","slug":"robots-of-retropolis-unite-the-fraternal-league-of-robotic-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/28\/robots-of-retropolis-unite-the-fraternal-league-of-robotic-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots of Retropolis Unite! The Fraternal League of Robotic Persons"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Retropolis<\/a>I was working on a side project, a downright heroic propaganda poster for the Retropolis Fraternal League of Robotic Persons, when I did this side-side project spin off from the idea.\n<\/p>

\nThe line “Although I am a servant, I am not your<\/em> servant” is one that I read somewhere – I have no idea where – years ago. It’s always stuck with me.\n<\/p>

\nI invented the Fraternal League of Robotic Persons in a news item at the Retropolis Transit Authority<\/a> (it’s got an “On This Day in the Future” feature on the front page). Here’s what I decided I knew about the robots’ union:\n<\/p>\n

\nOn this date in 2033, robots throughout known space collectively formed the Fraternal League of Robotic Persons – the first instance of a labor union for manufactured beings.<\/em>\n<\/p>

\nThis caused some confusion among biological citizens, none of whom had had to work for a living for decades – and in fact even the robots had labor-saving devices of their own. When asked why they felt compelled to unionize, the robots replied that they’d seen <\/em>Metropolis and they weren’t taking any chances.<\/em>\n<\/p>

<\/blockquote>\nSo while my original big image isn’t done yet, I spun this version off into a poster<\/a>, t-shirts<\/a>, a clock<\/a> (!), mugs<\/a>, and other gewgaws. You know me, I’m just like that. But I really ought to be working away at my City of Nova York. It continues to lumber on ahead at its own massive, deliberate pace.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was working on a side project, a downright heroic propaganda poster for the Retropolis Fraternal League of Robotic Persons, when I did this side-side project spin off from the idea. The line “Although I am a servant, I am not your servant” is one that I read somewhere – I have no idea where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}