{"id":8969,"date":"2006-05-31T11:29:38","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T11:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8969"},"modified":"2006-05-31T11:29:38","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T11:29:38","slug":"dead-media-war-tubas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8969","title":{"rendered":"Dead Media: War Tubas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=350 src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/wartubas.jpg\"> <\/center> <\/p>\n<p> How freaking amazing are these? That&#8217;s Japanese Emperor Hirohito touring his war tubas. No, they weren&#8217;t a deafeningly loud section of the military marching band, they were a pre-radar acoustical listening technology, designed to pick up the distant rumble of aircraft engines. I wonder if any of them survive? <\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirchersociety.org\/blog\/\" target=\"new\">The Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p> <i>Thanks, Alberto!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How freaking amazing are these? That&#8217;s Japanese Emperor Hirohito touring his war tubas. No, they weren&#8217;t a deafeningly loud section of the military marching band, they were a pre-radar acoustical listening technology, designed to pick up the distant rumble of aircraft engines. I wonder if any of them survive? [Via The Proceedings of the Athanasius &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8969\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dead Media: War Tubas&#8221;<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scitech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}