{"id":1308,"date":"2014-12-05T10:23:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T10:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interbellum.de\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2016-11-01T14:48:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T13:48:12","slug":"nicholassabalos-those-were-the-days-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/?p=1308","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1308 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/interbellum.de\/?attachment_id=1309'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tumblr_nb7530QKxR1ssfyt7o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/nicholassabalos.tumblr.com\/post\/96848924563\/those-were-the-days-the-golden-age-of-ocean\" target=\"_blank\">nicholassabalos<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Those were the days\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Golden Age of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ocean_liner\" title=\"ocean liner\" target=\"_blank\">ocean liners<\/a>\u2026.dramatically depicted here by the iconic\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cunard.com\/\" title=\"Cunard Line (website)\" target=\"_blank\">Cunard Line<\/a>\u00a0ships\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RMS_Queen_Mary\" title=\"RMS Queen Mary\" target=\"_blank\">RMS\u00a0<em>Queen Mary<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RMS_Queen_Elizabeth\" title=\"RMS Queen Elizabeth\" target=\"_blank\">RMS\u00a0<em>Queen Elizabeth<\/em><\/a>\u2026.set against the also-iconic\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chrysler_Building\" title=\"Chrysler Building\" target=\"_blank\">Chrysler Building<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" title=\"New York City\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Postcard circa 1938.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Those were the days\u2026.before today\u2019s instant communications, always-connected, WiFi\/Cellular\/Satellite\/Internet, megabits per second, fast-paced world.<\/p>\n<p>Those were the days\u2026.when one went to sea\u2026.and forgot the rest of the world for a few days. News, if any, came via a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Telegraphy\" title=\"telegraphy\" target=\"_blank\">telegram<\/a>! STOP. Just a few words per minute\u2026.STOP\u2026.from the outside world. STOP.<\/p>\n<p>Those were the days\u2026.a Golden Age!<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, in some ways, a little more gentle\u2026.a little more\u00a0<em>human<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nicholassabalos: Those were the days\u2026. The Golden Age of\u00a0ocean liners\u2026.dramatically depicted here by the iconic\u00a0Cunard Line\u00a0ships\u00a0RMS\u00a0Queen Mary\u00a0and\u00a0RMS\u00a0Queen Elizabeth\u2026.set against the also-iconic\u00a0Chrysler Building\u00a0in\u00a0New York City. (Postcard circa 1938.) Those were the days\u2026.before today\u2019s instant communications, always-connected, WiFi\/Cellular\/Satellite\/Internet, megabits per second, fast-paced world. Those were the days\u2026.when one went to sea\u2026.and forgot &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}