{"id":758,"date":"2004-03-19T03:54:49","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T22:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/758"},"modified":"2004-03-19T03:54:49","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T22:54:49","slug":"cold-war-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/758","title":{"rendered":"Cold War History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were like me, you grew up in an era where the USSR was the big bad guy and movies like The Day After scared the pee out of you.  You cut your video game teeth on Missile Command and fretted along with Matthew Broderick when he accidentally set the WOPR off on a game of Global Thermonuclear War.  How about a nice game of chess?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=2231937565&#038;category=13983&#038;sspagename=STRK:MESSE:IT&#038;rd=1\">This auction<\/a> is for the item that meant life or death; nuclear winter or apple pie and the American way.<\/p>\n<p>I am so tempted.  But what will it mean in 50 years?  Nothing, really.  My kids won&#8217;t understand the deep and primal fear I feel deep down inside of me when I see them.  To them it will be as mementos of JFK&#8217;s assassination were to me.  Yes, mom, that&#8217;s just swell.  Any cartoons on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were like me, you grew up in an era where the USSR was the big bad guy and movies like The Day After scared the pee out of you. You cut your video game teeth on Missile Command and fretted along with Matthew Broderick when he accidentally set the WOPR off on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}