{"id":171,"date":"2008-12-05T16:14:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T20:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2008-12-05T16:14:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T20:14:25","slug":"finest-quality-airship-ballast-t-shirts-at-the-retropolis-transit-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/05\/finest-quality-airship-ballast-t-shirts-at-the-retropolis-transit-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Finest Quality Airship Ballast&#8221; T-Shirts at the Retropolis Transit Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;text-indent:0px;margin-bottom:12px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.printfection.com\/retro-future\/Finest-Quality-Airship-Ballast\/_s_243452\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/Airship_Ballast.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Airship Ballast T-Shirts\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">While the plum job on an airship is &#8211; of course &#8211; the Captaincy, with that cool hat and the riding crop, there are any number of other important and prestigious positions on the airships of Retropolis.<\/p>\n<p>Cooks, for example. The crews who swarm over the gas bags and make speedy repairs. The stewards who serve travellers and empty the ashtrays in the pigskin-lined smoking compartments. Cabin boys. You get it.\n<\/p><p>\nAnd then, of course, the <em>incredibly important<\/em> and yet underappreciated job we celebrate here today. Because at some point, just about any airship needs to gain altitude in a big hurry. And there are only so many ways to do that. So here, salute the unsung heroes of the skyways: Ballastmen. Provided at reasonable rates by Geo. Postlethwaite and Sons. No returns; sorry!\n<\/p><p>\nThis is once again a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.printfection.com\/retro-future\/Finest-Quality-Airship-Ballast\/_s_243452\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T-Shirt design<\/a> for my <strong>Retropolis Transit Authority<\/strong> site. Providing uniforms for Ballastmen since, oh, about twenty minutes ago.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the plum job on an airship is &#8211; of course &#8211; the Captaincy, with that cool hat and the riding crop, there are any number of other important and prestigious positions on the airships of Retropolis. Cooks, for example. The crews who swarm over the gas bags and make speedy repairs. The stewards who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}