{"id":9553,"date":"2019-11-17T10:21:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T18:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=9553"},"modified":"2019-11-17T12:28:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T20:28:02","slug":"a-surprisingly-terrific-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/17\/a-surprisingly-terrific-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"A surprisingly terrific podcast: &#8220;The Great Bitter Lake Association&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two things I should know by now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some 99% Invisible podcast is going to seem worthy but so arcane that I just won\u2019t really make time to listen to it.<\/li>\n<li>If eventually I do, I\u2019ll be really rewarded for it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0recent episode about The <a href=\"https:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/episode\/great-bitter-lake-association\/\">Great Bitter Lake Association<\/a>\u2014covering the camaraderie that emerged among sailors in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yellow_Fleet\">&#8220;Yellow Fleet&#8221;<\/a> that became trapped by the Six-Day War &amp; then stuck in the Suez for years\u2014is totally fascinating. I hope you listen &amp; enjoy. If nothing else, enjoy the homemade postage they created amongst themselves (which eventually became recognized by Egypt &amp; thus usable for sending mail), the discovery of which sets the whole recounting in motion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/NewImage-8.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"539\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/NewImage-9.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"727\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two things I should know by now: Some 99% Invisible podcast is going to seem worthy but so arcane that I just won\u2019t really make time to listen to it. If eventually I do, I\u2019ll be really rewarded for it. The\u00a0recent episode about The Great Bitter Lake Association\u2014covering the camaraderie that emerged among sailors in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9557,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553\/revisions\/9557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}