{"id":1359,"date":"2008-06-08T19:36:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T00:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1359"},"modified":"2008-06-09T08:27:21","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T13:27:21","slug":"still-fighting-granddads-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1359","title":{"rendered":"Still Fighting Granddad’s War…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted over at SLOG…<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t The Past Isn’t Even Past<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

From the NYT<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Military engineers defused a giant bomb from World War II<\/strong> that was discovered in East London during construction for the 2012 Summer Olympics, a military spokesman said. The 2,200-pound bomb<\/strong>… started to tick<\/strong> at one point while being defused by a team of Royal Engineers from the British Army. Thousands of bombs fell on East London during World War II.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It strikes me as odd that this necessarily short “World Briefing” item avoids mentioning just who it was that dropped all those bombs on East London during WWII. Those bombs decide on their own to fall all over East London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Er…what’s your point Dan?  You think the American readers of the New York Times might not know where that bomb came from without being told?  Hmmm… World War II bomb… East London… Now where the hell could that thing have come from… think… think… think… <\/p>\n

Well it probably wasn’t the Japanese.  Maybe the Times should have told its readers what that ticking sound signified too because goodness they might think the British had dug up a 2,200 pound Soviet era kitchen timer some poor East German refugee family brought back with them during the cold war, and promptly threw in a ditch when they saw how much better the kitchen timers in the west are.  You never know.  Maybe there’s a Trabant buried somewhere nearby…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted over at SLOG… The Past Isn’t Even Past From the NYT: Military engineers defused a giant bomb from World War II that was discovered in East London during construction for the 2012 Summer Olympics, a military spokesman said. The 2,200-pound bomb… started to tick at one point while being defused by a team of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-goshbait-fugue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}