{"id":3705,"date":"2011-01-28T07:19:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T11:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2010-12-17T11:12:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T15:12:40","slug":"a-moment-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3705","title":{"rendered":"A Moment of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/smokeplume-150x121.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke Plume\" title=\"Smoke Plume\" width=\"150\" height=\"121\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Today is the 25th anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Challenger_disaster\">Challenger disaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was in high school, and they announced the disaster over the PA system.  The teacher stopped class and we watched a replay on the news.<\/p>\n<p>I specifically recall a voiceover by somebody in the control room who didn&#8217;t see the explosion but noticed that his equipment was registering some kind of mechanical failure saying, &#8220;Obviously, a major malfunction,&#8221; and thinking that he had just won the Understatement of the Decade Award.<\/p>\n<p>Where were you when it happened?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 25th anniversary of the Challenger disaster. I was in high school, and they announced the disaster over the PA system. The teacher stopped class and we watched a replay on the news. I specifically recall a voiceover by somebody in the control room who didn&#8217;t see the explosion but noticed that his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5330,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions\/5330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}