{"id":200,"date":"2008-06-04T08:08:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T16:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2008-06-04T08:08:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T16:08:26","slug":"remembering-midway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/04\/remembering-midway\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Midway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised and pleased when I saw that Wired&#8217;s interesting historical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/discoveries\/news\/2008\/06\/dayintech_0604\">fact of the day<\/a> for today was the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Midway\">Battle of Midway<\/a>. Good on yer, Wired!<\/p>\n<p>(It&#8217;s an interesting observation they make. The &#8220;tech angle&#8221; here that this was the 2nd naval battle in which the fleets never made visual contact with each other. That is, it was a naval battle decided not by battle ships but aircraft carriers. We lost only one, the <em>Yorktown<\/em>. I&#8217;ve been aboard the aircraft carrier <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Yorktown_%28CV-10%29\">Yorktown<\/a>, but it wasn&#8217;t the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Yorktown_%28CV-5%29\">one sunk at Midway<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised and pleased when I saw that Wired&#8217;s interesting historical fact of the day for today was the Battle of Midway. Good on yer, Wired! (It&#8217;s an interesting observation they make. The &#8220;tech angle&#8221; here that this was the 2nd naval battle in which the fleets never made visual contact with each other. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-3e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}