{"id":11130,"date":"2011-06-02T07:10:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T11:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=11130"},"modified":"2015-11-13T16:31:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T21:31:16","slug":"how-to-be-a-retronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=11130","title":{"rendered":"How to Be a Retronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/retronaut.jpg\" alt=\"Retronaut\" title=\"Retronaut\" width=\"139\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>How have I never encountered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtobearetronaut.com\/\">this site<\/a> before?  It is utterly splendid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retronaut.com\/\">How to Be a Retronaut<\/a> is run by historical consultant Chris Wild.  The site&#8217;s tagline is &#8220;Ever get the feeling you&#8217;re living in the wrong time?&#8221; and it is an almost inexplicable collection of vintage\/time-travel\/steampunk\/godonlyknows photos and minutiae, ranging from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retronaut.com\/2011\/05\/victorian-surrealism\/\">Victorian surrealism<\/a> through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retronaut.com\/2011\/02\/skeletons-locked-in-eternal-embrace\/\">eternally-cuddling skeletons<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retronaut.com\/2010\/05\/the-cabinet-of-sarah-hare\/\">memorial effigies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are videos which purport to show time travelers and photos of Australian criminals from the 1920s and anatomical drawings of mermaids and&#8230;let&#8217;s just say you&#8217;re going to be here for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How have I never encountered this site before? It is utterly splendid. How to Be a Retronaut is run by historical consultant Chris Wild. The site&#8217;s tagline is &#8220;Ever get the feeling you&#8217;re living in the wrong time?&#8221; and it is an almost inexplicable collection of vintage\/time-travel\/steampunk\/godonlyknows photos and minutiae, ranging from Victorian surrealism through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11130"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26518,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130\/revisions\/26518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}