{"id":301,"date":"2009-09-26T21:28:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T21:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/09\/26\/on_things_that_go_bang\/"},"modified":"2009-09-26T21:28:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T21:28:01","slug":"on_things_that_go_bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/09\/26\/on_things_that_go_bang\/","title":{"rendered":"On things that go bang"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"flowers\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\nIt’s an indication of the length of my personal ‘to-do’ list that, though I managed to see and even review the new movie about Charles Darwin<\/a>, I’ve only just got around to uploading my photos<\/a> of the Thames Festival<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\"jazz<\/a>
\nJazz hands<\/em><\/p>\n

\nI had planned to wonder and pontificate on the wondrousness of fireworks, and how the heck you you get those beautiful shapes, and stuff like that.<\/p>\n

\n\"Butterfly\"<\/a>
\nButterfly<\/em><\/p>\n

\nBut I’m so tired right now that I think what I’m going to do is link to a site that tells you how to make fireworks<\/a>,<\/p>\n

\n\"Here<\/a>
\nVorlons on approach<\/em><\/p>\n

\nand simply marvel at the prettiness of it all. <\/p>\n

\nI would like to know how they get some of those effects, though. I found a website that probably tells me\u2014even me!\u2014too much about pyrotechnics<\/a> (although looking at the writing on that page, I do wonder if they think swine flu is a conspiracy<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\nInstead, I’m just going to say ‘Oooh’ and ‘Aaah’. And point out that you don’t need a crap camera in an iPhone<\/a> to get cool effects: sometimes it’s deliberate.<\/p>\n

\n\"Blackfriars\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s an indication of the length of my personal ‘to-do’ list that, though I managed to see and even review the new movie about Charles Darwin, I’ve only just got around to uploading my photos of the Thames Festival. Jazz … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}