{"id":8023,"date":"2014-11-30T11:09:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T16:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=8023"},"modified":"2014-11-30T13:29:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T18:29:15","slug":"those-simpler-times-when-we-were-all-digging-fallout-shelters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/8023","title":{"rendered":"Those Simpler Times When We Were All Digging Fallout Shelters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/skate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8024\" alt=\"skate\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/skate.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/skate.jpg 600w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/skate-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPhoto credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymodernmet.com\/profiles\/blogs\/bill-eppridge-skateboarding-in-new-york-city\">Bill Eppridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My Facebook stream had one of those those <em>Do You Remember When<\/em> things aimed at boomers like myself and the slightly older. I sat through it, the usual stuff about how things were for us when we were all kids, <em>Do You Remember When Telephones Had Dials&#8230;Saturday Mornings Were For Cartoons&#8230;You Got Your Schoolwork On Mimeographed Pages&#8230;<\/em> ending with the usual <em>If You Remember This Then You Lived In Simpler Times<\/em> Consider Yourself Lucky&#8230;blah blah blah&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Yeah it was simpler&#8230;for us. We were kids. <em>We were simpler back then<\/em>. Probably not so simple a time for all the grownups leading us in our duck and cover drills though, and sitting through the random tests of the emergency broadcast system on the TV.<\/p>\n<p align=center><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/cuba-fallout-shelter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8025\" alt=\"cuba-fallout-shelter\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/cuba-fallout-shelter.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/cuba-fallout-shelter.jpg 594w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/cuba-fallout-shelter-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Photo credit: Bill Eppridge &nbsp; My Facebook stream had one of those those Do You Remember When things aimed at boomers like myself and the slightly older. I sat through it, the usual stuff about how things were for us when we were all kids, Do You Remember When Telephones Had Dials&#8230;Saturday Mornings Were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-8023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-department-of-treacherous-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023","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=8023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}