{"id":397,"date":"2008-02-20T20:13:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T07:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2008-02-25T14:39:04","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T01:39:04","slug":"a7-carrier-pigeon-message-capsule-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"#a7 :: Carrier pigeon message capsule (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"capsule2.jpg\"<\/a>I open the capsule<\/a>. Inside, sildenafil<\/a> the tightly-rolled message lies in wait, a fragile knot of mystery.<\/p>\n

I pull it out with tweezers as carefully as I can (cotton gloves probably would have been far less intrusive, but I’m a geek, not an archivist) and unfold it.<\/p>\n

Attempts to spread it flat are not quite futile, but close – it’s been opened and re-folded many times before, perhaps by antique dealers, perhaps by the son’s sons of the military man who received the original message and stuffed the capsule into a pocket after reading it in the previous century.
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\nI photograph it, shoot a series of photos<\/a> as I unfurl it, in case the whole thing just turns to dust.<\/p>\n

\"FLATTENED<\/a>Finally, I spread it under a clean sheet of thick glass and try to read it.<\/p>\n

This is message number 2 declares the form printed on the wispy tissue, and it’s the original (where is the carbon?)<\/p>\n

The words “Hourly” and “Feb” seem<\/em> pretty clear. There appears to be a date – 1922 – or was that the distance? The location number?<\/p>\n

There’s another word, written vertically – is it “Honolulu?” or “Honolilei?” The dot over the “I” mocks inspection, the rest is difficult if not impossible to read.<\/p>\n

Who wrote this? Who was it meant for? And if one interpretation is correct, what happened in Honolulu that day, some 86 years ago?<\/p>\n

The message topples back into the unknown and unknowable – another lost experience, another missed connection. Another secret of the dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I open the capsule. Inside, sildenafil the tightly-rolled message lies in wait, a fragile knot of mystery. I pull it out with tweezers as carefully as I can (cotton gloves probably would have been far less intrusive, but I’m a geek, not an archivist) and unfold it. Attempts to spread it flat are not quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifact","category-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}