{"id":9219,"date":"2006-09-27T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9219"},"modified":"2006-09-27T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T18:49:00","slug":"swansong-of-the-rocketman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9219","title":{"rendered":"Swansong of the Rocketman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/rocketDaze.jpg\">Larry Smith, my former editor at P.O.V., and creator of the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/smithmag.net\" target=\"new\">SMITH Magazine<\/a>, has just come back from the world&#8217;s first <a href=\"\" target=\"new\">Rocketbelt Convention<\/a> in Niagra, NY. While there, he got this video of <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=1126\" target=\"new\">Harold Graham<\/a>, the original Rocketman, strumming a Uke and singing wistfully of his <a href=\"http:\/\/smithmag.net\/2006\/09\/27\/my-rocketbelt-daze-a-video-blast-off\/\" target=\"new\">&#8220;Rocketbelt Daze.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p> [BTW: Larry was also the writer who did the piece for Popular Science on Rocketbelt Man, the builder from Mexico, that <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=1028\" target=\"new\">we covered<\/a> a while back.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Smith, my former editor at P.O.V., and creator of the wonderful SMITH Magazine, has just come back from the world&#8217;s first Rocketbelt Convention in Niagra, NY. While there, he got this video of Harold Graham, the original Rocketman, strumming a Uke and singing wistfully of his &#8220;Rocketbelt Daze.&#8221; [BTW: Larry was also the writer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9219\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swansong of the Rocketman&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219","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=9219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}