{"id":1044,"date":"2010-06-28T17:18:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T17:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=483"},"modified":"2010-06-28T17:18:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T17:18:06","slug":"got-altitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Got altitude?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We continued north to Lafayette, Colorado, where I saw a t-shirt that read: \u00a0 Got altitude? \u00a0<\/strong><\/em> … \u00a0 In Lafayette, I interviewed Ben Venvigel who was at the Los Alamos nuclear site at the same time Albert Einstein was there, working on the atom bomb. \u00a0 While Venvigel said he saw “the bomb” as an istrument for peace (ending World War II), now he’s not so sure, and in fact a bit leary of the technology. \u00a0 He related that \u00a0JFK once was quoted as saying: \u00a0 “Let’s put an end to the atom bomb, before the atom bomb puts an end to mankind.” \u00a0 Bumper sticker sighting in Lafayette: \u00a0 Who Would Jesus Bomb?<\/strong> \u00a0 …While in Lafayette, I also talked with George Peirce, 85. \u00a0 He was raised in rural Texas during the Depression. \u00a0 He said he, his father and five siblings all lived in an abandoned cotton mill. \u00a0 And if it wasn’t for FDR’s “New Deal,” he said he wasn’t sure the family would have survived. \u00a0 He said at the height of their own family crisis, the government began providing regular food staples. \u00a0 What’s more, the father eventually got a job with the New Deal’s Public Works Project crushing rocks for new roads in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We continued north to Lafayette, Colorado, where I saw a t-shirt that read: \u00a0 Got altitude? \u00a0 … \u00a0 In Lafayette, I interviewed Ben Venvigel who was at the Los Alamos nuclear site at the same time Albert Einstein was …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}