{"id":881,"date":"2014-01-15T17:47:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/?p=881"},"modified":"2014-01-17T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T11:04:06","slug":"nuclear-pong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/2014\/01\/nuclear-pong\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Pong"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it<\/a> first starts I see a global version of Pong<\/a>. Then it when it really gets going in the early 60’s it reminds me of the human\/alien communication at the end of Close Encounters<\/a> of the Third Kind(coincidentally, or not, I reference it in my last post<\/a>). There’s a double-time version<\/a> for the impatient.<\/p>\n

Seeing this beautiful and horrific work of art makes it clear that these were not merely tests. More like alpha challenges<\/a>. Oi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it first starts I see a global version of Pong. Then it when it really gets going in the early 60’s it reminds me of the human\/alien communication at the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind(coincidentally, or not, I reference it in my last post). There’s a double-time version for the impatient. … Continue reading Nuclear Pong<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}