{"id":41276,"date":"2014-01-22T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41276"},"modified":"2014-01-21T06:33:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T12:33:03","slug":"check-out-my-1912-telephone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41276","title":{"rendered":"Check Out My 1912 Telephone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails re a birthday that&#8217;s coming up tomorrow:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">January 23, 1855 was the birthday of John Moses Browning, who single-handedly revolutionized firearms.\u00a0 Look at the\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Browning\" target=\"_blank\">list of cartridges<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">\u00a0he designed, and weapons he designed them for, many of which are still in use today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In an age when some Americans think we\u2019re the Smartest People Ever, it\u2019s worth remembering that clever people did amazing things before we came along.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25740\">As I noted two years ago &#8211;<\/a> try to imagine a product (a fairly complex product &#8211; not a shovel or an ax) designed over 100 years ago that&#8217;s still in widespread use today in its original, unimproved form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails re a birthday that&#8217;s coming up tomorrow: January 23, 1855 was the birthday of John Moses Browning, who single-handedly revolutionized firearms.\u00a0 Look at the\u00a0list of cartridges\u00a0he designed, and weapons he designed them for, many of which are still in use today.\u00a0 In an age when some Americans think we\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41278,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41276\/revisions\/41278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}