{"id":310,"date":"2006-08-24T21:45:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T02:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2006-08-25T13:09:22","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T18:09:22","slug":"a-joke-for-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"A joke for the ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted links to stories before, stories that have a Space Elevator theme.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/polish-sausage.livejournal.com\/19734.html\">This one<\/a> is a bit different, and the Space Elevator is only used as a backdrop.\u00a0 But I think it works.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that in the early days of cruise ships, a &#8220;culture&#8221; did emerge, complete with expected practices and ceremonies.\u00a0 Now that they&#8217;ve become more affordable and more commonplace, that&#8217;s all gone.\u00a0\u00a0If the Space Elevator ever starts transporting tourists, perhaps a similar culture may also emerge as polish_sausage theorizes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted links to stories before, stories that have a Space Elevator theme.\u00a0 This one is a bit different, and the Space Elevator is only used as a backdrop.\u00a0 But I think it works. I understand that in the early days of cruise ships, a &#8220;culture&#8221; did emerge, complete with expected practices and ceremonies.\u00a0 Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}