{"id":2825,"date":"2010-10-16T20:15:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T04:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2014-07-14T21:10:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T01:10:27","slug":"airship-kitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/16\/airship-kitty\/","title":{"rendered":"Airship Kitty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.purr-n-fur.org.uk\/famous\/kiddo.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kiddo-with-melvin-vaniman-chief-engineer-of-airship-america-photo-used-with-permission-of-the-national-air-and-space-museum.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kiddo with melvin vaniman\" width=\"301\" height=\"469\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2826\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>As the crew, which also included a radio operator, a chief engineer and two mechanics, climbed on board, Simon picked up a stray cat that had been living in the America\u2019s hangar. Like many sailors, he was superstitious. \u2018We can never have luck without a cat on board,\u2019 he wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/8048396\/America-the-airship-the-first-transatlantic-crossing.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a>, and written up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purr-n-fur.org.uk\/famous\/kiddo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Purr n Fur Famous Felines<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/16\/caturday-felid-kiddo-the-cat-who-nearly-beat-lindbergh\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Evolution Is True<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the crew, which also included a radio operator, a chief engineer and two mechanics, climbed on board, Simon picked up a stray cat that had been living in the America\u2019s hangar. Like many sailors, he was superstitious. \u2018We can never have luck without a cat on board,\u2019 he wrote. More at The Telegraph, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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,"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":[13,18],"tags":[50,214,674],"class_list":["post-2825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","category-technology","tag-airship","tag-cat","tag-kiddo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-Jz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5030,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions\/5030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}