{"id":327,"date":"2017-08-07T15:22:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T15:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/?p=327"},"modified":"2017-08-07T15:22:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T15:22:15","slug":"cold-war-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/cold-war-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold War research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cold-war-books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-329\" src=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cold-war-books-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Cold War books\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cold-war-books-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cold-war-books-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cold-war-books-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cold-war-books.jpg 1926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having thoroughly enjoyed doing the research for my book on <em>Pseudoscience and Science Fiction<\/em> last year (see a selection of research materials <a href=\"http:\/\/forteana-blog.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/02\/i-call-it-research.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/forteana-blog.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/03\/more-research.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>), and then <em>The Telescopic Tourist\u2019s Guide to the Moon<\/em> earlier this year (see my <a href=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/lunar-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lunar Research<\/a> blog post) I\u2019ve been wondering what to do next. One idea that occurred to me is something about the Cold War &#8230; so I\u2019ve been dutifully immersing myself in research on the subject, as you can see from the picture above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having thoroughly enjoyed doing the research for my book on Pseudoscience and Science Fiction last year (see a selection of research materials here and here), and then The Telescopic Tourist\u2019s Guide to the Moon earlier this year (see my Lunar Research blog post) I\u2019ve been wondering what to do next. One idea that occurred to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/cold-war-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold War research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,47,23,33],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cold-war","tag-military-technology","tag-space-travel","tag-writing-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}