{"id":12591,"date":"2017-03-24T12:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T18:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=12591"},"modified":"2017-03-24T12:02:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T18:02:33","slug":"been-working-with-blimps-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/been-working-with-blimps-so-long\/","title":{"rendered":"been working with blimps so long"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eric Risberg \/ AP. Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune.<\/p><\/div>\n

from today’s briefing in the ny times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Goodyear, the U.S.-based tire multinational, retired the last of its blimps this month. But the replacements, semirigid dirigibles, will also be called blimps.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause a Goodyear Semirigid Dirigible doesn\u2019t roll off the tongue,\u201d Eddie Ogden, the company\u2019s airship historian, said<\/a> about sticking with the term. …<\/p>\n

As the helium was let out<\/a> of the last blimp from the original fleet, Spirit of Innovation, in Los Angeles recently, the Goodyear employees watching the deflation let out some emotion, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were a couple tears because they\u2019ve been working with blimps for so long,\u201d Mr. Ogden said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from today’s briefing in the ny times: Goodyear, the U.S.-based tire multinational, retired the last of its blimps this month. But the replacements, semirigid dirigibles, will also be called blimps. \u201cBecause a Goodyear Semirigid Dirigible doesn\u2019t roll off the tongue,\u201d Eddie Ogden, the company\u2019s airship historian, said about sticking with the term. … As the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12593,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions\/12593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}