{"id":14906,"date":"2019-03-31T23:15:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T23:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/free-your-mind-4\/"},"modified":"2019-03-31T23:15:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T23:15:54","slug":"free-your-mind-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/free-your-mind-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Free \u2026 Your \u2026 Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1159\" title=\"The Matrix Poster\" alt=\"The Matrix Poster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/a9530__The_Matrix_Poster.jpg\" width=\"218\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/a9530__The_Matrix_Poster.jpg 218w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/The_Matrix_Poster-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/>March 31, 1999<\/p>\n<p>The hugely successful motion picture, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Matrix\" target=\"_blank\">The Matrix<\/a><\/em>, is released on this day. Many call it a classic (ok, that&#8217;s me), many call it influential (ok, me again), but no one can deny that the impact it had on many aspects of our society from the emerging tech culture, to the movie industry, to science-fiction, to political thinking. <em>The Matrix<\/em> won 4 Oscars, on a budget of $  63 million grossed over $  463 million, and was the first DVD to sell over 3 million copies. And who could forget some of the great quotes from this movie, including &#8220;Free &#8230; your &#8230; mind&#8221;, &#8220;Dodge this&#8221;, &#8220;There is no spoon&#8221;, &#8220;Don&#8217;t think you are &#8211; know you are&#8221;, &#8220;Welcome &#8230; to the real world&#8221;, &#8220;I know kung fu&#8221;, and &#8220;You take the red pill &#8211; you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/03\/31\/free-your-mind\/\">Free &#8230; Your &#8230; Mind<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/03\/31\/free-your-mind\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 31, 1999 The hugely successful motion picture, The Matrix, is released on this day. Many call it a classic (ok, that&#8217;s me), many call it influential (ok, me again), but no one can deny that the impact it had on many aspects of our society from the emerging tech culture, to the movie industry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[286,3367],"class_list":["post-14906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-free","tag-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}