{"id":5934,"date":"2011-06-03T07:19:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T11:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2011-06-01T10:32:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T14:32:14","slug":"how-to-be-a-retronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5934","title":{"rendered":"How to Be a Retronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/retronaut-e1306938128699-109x150.jpg\" alt=\"Victorian Star Wars\" title=\"Victorian Star Wars\" width=\"109\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>How have I never encountered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtobearetronaut.com\/\">this site<\/a> before?  It is utterly splendid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtobearetronaut.com\/\">How to Be a Retronaut<\/a> is run by historical consultant Chris Wild.  The site&#8217;s tagline is &#8220;Ever get the feeling you&#8217;re living in the wrong time?&#8221; and it is an almost inexplicable collection of vintage\/time-travel\/steampunk\/godonlyknows photos and minutiae, ranging from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtobearetronaut.com\/2010\/06\/victorian-star-wars\/\">Victorian Star Wars<\/a> through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtobearetronaut.com\/2010\/07\/aliens-in-vintage-postcards\/\">aliens in vintage postcards<\/a> to movie posters from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtobearetronaut.com\/2010\/05\/atomic-age-hollywood\/\">Atomic-age Hollywood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are videos which purport to show time travelers and M.C. Escher in Lego and anatomical drawings of mermaids and&#8230;let&#8217;s just say you&#8217;re going to be here for a while.<\/p>\n<p><small>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/\">The Art of Darkness<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How have I never encountered this site before? It is utterly splendid. How to Be a Retronaut is run by historical consultant Chris Wild. The site&#8217;s tagline is &#8220;Ever get the feeling you&#8217;re living in the wrong time?&#8221; and it is an almost inexplicable collection of vintage\/time-travel\/steampunk\/godonlyknows photos and minutiae, ranging from Victorian Star Wars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934"}],"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=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5939,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}