{"id":1536,"date":"2005-07-20T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/07\/20\/same-week-as-the-anniversary-of-the-nuclear-age\/"},"modified":"2005-07-20T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T13:01:00","slug":"same-week-as-the-anniversary-of-the-nuclear-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/07\/20\/same-week-as-the-anniversary-of-the-nuclear-age\/","title":{"rendered":"same week as the anniversary of the nuclear age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dantesfedora\/26724949\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos22.flickr.com\/26724949_660a1ea706_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dantesfedora\/26724949\/\">Cello&#8230; er not Viola<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/dantesfedora\/\">DantesFedora<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/07\/20\/obit.doohan.ap\/index.html\">James Doohan, the man who played Scotty on Star Trek, died Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s thirty-six years ago today that our species managed to touch booted foot to the moon. I remember framed newspaper articles on the walls of motels of that moment, the same picture of Armstrong next to the lander repeated in aged  yellow in hundreds of small towns. I was never old enough to remember it, never could be, but that didn&#8217;t stop me from reading the words. &#8220;THIS DAY IS A MARKED DAY IN HUMAN HISTORY&#8221; Headlines all echoing each other, reverberating from dingy bar to dingy bar. One stool always patched with worn silver tape. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s theme tonight&#8217;s party, shall we? People who arrive with tinfoil on their heads get extra style points.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/lynchwalker\">Sarah<\/a>. We love you.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>the picture links to the SimNuke photopool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cello&#8230; er not Viola Originally uploaded by DantesFedora. James Doohan, the man who played Scotty on Star Trek, died Wednesday. It&#8217;s thirty-six years ago today that our species managed to touch booted foot to the moon. I remember framed newspaper articles on the walls of motels of that moment, the same picture of Armstrong next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/07\/20\/same-week-as-the-anniversary-of-the-nuclear-age\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;same week as the anniversary of the nuclear age&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[240,138,155,32,139],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anniversary","tag-death","tag-flickr","tag-party","tag-r-i-p"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}