{"id":48520,"date":"2014-11-23T21:35:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T04:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/23\/it-was-a-simpler-time-except-for-you-know-the-nukes.html"},"modified":"2014-11-23T21:35:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T04:35:45","slug":"it-was-a-simpler-time-except-for-you-know-the-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/23\/it-was-a-simpler-time-except-for-you-know-the-nukes.html","title":{"rendered":"It was a simpler time &#8230; except for, you know, the nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, any time someone starts going on about how Ebola or ISIS or Those Bad People We Disagree With are making this the Most Terrifying Time Ever, just refer them back to this little ditty about how to prepare yourself for an <i>atomic attack.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, this is what <i>I<\/i> grew up with, kids. Except that by the time I was in school, even though we still did duck-and-cover drills, everyone knew that nobody would survive a nuclear war (or that those who survived would &quot;envy the dead,&quot; as it was so charmingly put).<\/p>\n<p>Not sure why so many of my generation have lost that perspective, but it sure helps me not worry quite so obsessively about the Menace <i>du Jour.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/111949195061107717668\" oid=\"111949195061107717668\">Alex Clark-McGlenn<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IKqXu-5jw60' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/EwjhgVDd4zN'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, any time someone starts going on about how Ebola or ISIS or Those Bad People We Disagree With are making this the Most Terrifying Time Ever, just refer them back to this little ditty about how to prepare yourself for an atomic attack. Yeah, this is what I grew up with, kids. Except that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/23\/it-was-a-simpler-time-except-for-you-know-the-nukes.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It was a simpler time &#8230; except for, you know, the nukes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32840,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/20\/words-mean-things-except-when-they-conveniently-dont.html","url_meta":{"origin":48520,"position":0},"title":"Words mean things (except when they conveniently don&#39;t)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 20-Mar-13 9:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Tom the Dancing Bug examines Justice Scalia's approach to discounting legislative intent, except when he doesn't. 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