{"id":421,"date":"2007-12-17T22:10:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T02:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/archives\/421"},"modified":"2007-12-17T22:10:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T02:10:26","slug":"from-dead-and-buried-to-reaching-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2007\/12\/17\/from-dead-and-buried-to-reaching-the-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"From Dead and Buried to Reaching the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the American fascination with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tutankhamun\">Tutankhamun<\/a>? Personally, I favor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramesses_II\">Ramses II<\/a>. Actually, Ramses II was one of my first obsessions. I knew everything there was to know about him at seven years old. Decades later, I&#8217;ve forgotten most of what I knew. <\/p>\n<p>We share the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phoneme\">phoneme<\/a> &#8220;Ra&#8221;. Ra was an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ra\">Egyptian<\/a> sun god probably a tie for my interest in other sun gods and goddesses such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helios\">Helios<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sol_%28goddess%29\">S\u00c3\u00b3l<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amaterasu\">Amaterasu<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apollo\">Apollo<\/a>. Unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Icarus\">Icarus<\/a>, I longed to fly too close to the Sun. Other kids thought about becoming police officers or fighting fires. I longed to travel to inside the orbit of Mercury near our Sun. Also, I thought about traveling to other stars. <\/p>\n<p>As a child, my doodles were small to fairly large battles of militaristic or science-fiction themes. I especially liked strong, impenetrable bases. Later, in high school, the doodles changed into massive dungeons and mammoth castles. The builder expressing itself?<\/p>\n<p>The dreams of my childhood seemed unattainable in my youth. Certainly I gave up on them too early. However, I like where and who I am today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the American fascination with Tutankhamun? Personally, I favor Ramses II. Actually, Ramses II was one of my first obsessions. I knew everything there was to know about him at seven years old. Decades later, I&#8217;ve forgotten most of what I knew. We share the phoneme &#8220;Ra&#8221;. Ra was an Egyptian sun god probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[988,252,657,702,412,215,67,3033,166,208,283,995,522],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aboutme","tag-adobe-air","tag-america","tag-fire","tag-god","tag-kids","tag-orbit","tag-person","tag-science","tag-theme","tag-travel","tag-user-interface","tag-vehicle","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-6N","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}