{"id":614,"date":"2005-10-19T22:25:29","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T02:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=614"},"modified":"2012-09-28T20:42:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T00:42:57","slug":"bobby-and-the-a-bomb-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/614\/bobby-and-the-a-bomb-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby and the A-Bomb Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Myers wrote a book about growing up a child of Hanford, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bob.myers.name\/bobby\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bobby and the A-Bomb Factory<\/em><\/a>, that supplies not only a unique account on Hanford but also on the different American Indian nations in the area and the effect of Hanford on them.  I happened upon his book the other day and promptly read his intimate, autobiographical account.  My father was there conducting  research on the low-level effects of radiation on miniature livestock, and he mentions this study, with which his father was also involved.<\/p>\n<p>His family drank instant milk.  That&#8217;s the kind of in-knowledge that only children of the area don&#8217;t have to explain to one another.<\/p>\n<p>We both attended Jason Lee Elementary School but he was several years ahead of me and his family  left the area several years before mine did.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, there&#8217;s history worked throughout the book that is unavailable anywhere else on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>And towards the beginning it has one of the better descriptions of the tumbleweed I&#8217;ve ever read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Myers wrote a book about growing up a child of Hanford, Bobby and the A-Bomb Factory, that supplies not only a unique account on Hanford but also on the different American Indian nations in the area and the effect of Hanford on them. I happened upon his book the other day and promptly read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-stories","tag-hanford-and-richland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}