{"id":280,"date":"2007-09-03T21:16:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T04:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2007\/atomic\/"},"modified":"2007-09-03T21:16:55","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T04:16:55","slug":"atomic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2007\/atomic\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/jason\/files\/bomb.jpg' alt='The Atomic Bomb' class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/>\nIt never occured to me that the US bombing of Japan during World War II probably resulted in the most people dying simultaneously (or within a rather short amount of time) in the history of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>I just watched the documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/docs\/programs\/whitelightblackrain\/index.html\"><i>White Light, Black Rain<\/i><\/a>. Despite knowing &#8220;about the bomb&#8221; and &#8220;about the situation,&#8221; I never really knew what happened immediately after and hear first-hand from survivors what it was like. It&#8217;s difficult to imagine or put into perspective the deaths of 210,000 human beings, but this documentary does a an excellent job trying to capture such an ineffable situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It never occured to me that the US bombing of Japan during World War II probably resulted in the most people dying simultaneously (or within a rather short amount of time) in the history of humanity. I just watched the documentary White Light, Black Rain. Despite knowing &#8220;about the bomb&#8221; and &#8220;about the situation,&#8221; I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2007\/atomic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Atomic<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}