{"id":211536,"date":"2026-05-10T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/dispatch-from-wyoming-why-i-dodge-billionaires-smartphones-and-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T04:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:30:10","slug":"dispatch-from-wyoming-why-i-dodge-billionaires-smartphones-and-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/dispatch-from-wyoming-why-i-dodge-billionaires-smartphones-and-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch from Wyoming: Why I dodge billionaires, smartphones and artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2026\/may\/10\/dispatch-from-wyoming-why-i-dodge-billionaires-sma\/\">Dispatch from Wyoming: Why I dodge billionaires, smartphones and artificial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2026\/may\/10\/dispatch-from-wyoming-why-i-dodge-billionaires-sma\/\">https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2026\/may\/10\/dispatch-from-wyoming-why-i-dodge-billionaires-sma\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-10 03:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.spokesman.com\">www.spokesman.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The author has been writing about Sheriff Walt Longmire for nearly 20 years, initially as a standalone novel and gradually developing a series.<\/li>\n<li>The uniqueness of Longmire\u2019s county in Wyoming helps the author create a distinct setting isolated from national trends like the influx of billionaires.<\/li>\n<li>The protagonist, Walt Longmire, sticks to old-fashioned, non-technological practices, which is part of the author&#8217;s creative rules.<\/li>\n<li>The weather in Wyoming provides four distinctly different settings for the books, allowing continuity and a natural chronology.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike the author, Longmire ages slowly which creates an interesting dynamic; Longmire&#8217;s world largely avoids modern technology and artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>The Native Cheyenne philosophy of living in the moment influences Longmire\u2019s character and approach, contributing to a unique narrative style.<\/li>\n<li>The limitations of technology in rural Wyoming form an underlying theme, showing its ineffectiveness when challenged by nature.<\/li>\n<li>The author ponders the future as he ages more rapidly than his fictional character, Longmire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dispatch from Wyoming: Why I dodge billionaires, smartphones and artificial intelligence https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2026\/may\/10\/dispatch-from-wyoming-why-i-dodge-billionaires-sma\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-10&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thumb.spokesman.com\/IDWWaZPLv6xu71tDy9kTnVp797Y=\/1200x630\/smart\/media.spokesman.com\/photos\/2026\/05\/06\/6837dcd90447d.hires.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-211536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211538,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211536\/revisions\/211538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}