{"id":573890599,"date":"2018-03-07T21:45:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T03:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573890599"},"modified":"2018-03-14T14:35:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T19:35:51","slug":"ich-hoffe-dass-jemand-meine-bekommt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2018\/03\/07\/ich-hoffe-dass-jemand-meine-bekommt\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ich hoffe, dass jemand meine bekommt &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some pictures I took from the Sunday drive back up that I didn&#8217;t put anywhere. We simply can&#8217;t have that. One mustn&#8217;t take photographs for the pure joy of hearing a shutter close, or for seeing the fake version of that a phone offers. No,<br \/>\n no. How would anyone ever know you were there? How could they tell you&#8217;ve done the thing? Or saw the stuff?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bit of what you see on parts of I-69 somewhere around Evansville, I think. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar18\/mar06.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know for sure. We&#8217;d been in the car for hours already, and at some point you just lose track of where you are. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar18\/mar07.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And when that happens I spend time thinking about how I would tell the person on the other end of an emergency call if I had to reach them. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar18\/mar08.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s been an accident by &#8230; this sunset. But it&#8217;s a really beautiful sunset, and you should roll some people out here to see it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Yankee was on the podcast today. We talked about the newest old discovery, a message in a bottle. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/r7phu-8cc3f7?from=site&#038;vjs=1&#038;skin=1&#038;fonts=Helvetica&#038;auto=0&#038;download=0\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was a German bottle, dropped off to test currents. And it is now thought to be the oldest known message in a bottle. (By now  you should be thinking of the Police song, and that&#8217;s a good thing.)<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever put a message in a bottle? (We talked about that in the podcast.) Did you hear anything back from it?<\/p>\n<p>How many do you suppose you&#8217;d have to drop into the ocean to be sure you&#8217;d get a response? And does anyone even do this anymore? After elementary school, I mean. It seems an action that is a metaphor, really. There&#8217;s a bit of whimsy and hopefulness in the whole process. What should I write? Roll this up and jam the message in the bottle. And then, finally, the heave. A lot goes into that throw, which is probably a metaphor within the larger metaphor. Whatever the message in the bottle, we&#8217;re really saying something important here: get back to me. <\/p>\n<p>Because my commander really needs some ocean current data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some pictures I took from the Sunday drive back up that I didn&#8217;t put anywhere. We simply can&#8217;t have that. One mustn&#8217;t take photographs for the pure joy of hearing a shutter close, or for seeing the fake version of that a phone offers. No, no. 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