{"id":75,"date":"1981-05-01T14:26:48","date_gmt":"1981-05-01T18:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=75"},"modified":"2009-10-19T17:49:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T21:49:58","slug":"missile-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Missile Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Finally on a roll at the Yipster Times. <\/strong>Before you start laughing, 13.9% was a ball-buster for a mortgage in 1981, at least as I recall &#8212; even for the &#8220;fixer-upper&#8221; portrayed below. This was about the time that the legendary Largest Arms Buildup Since The First Cold War was being cranked up, about the time the air-traffic controllers&#8217; union was busted, and real wages first began its long, slow slide into the toilet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76\" title=\"wallofmissiles650w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wallofmissiles650w.jpg\" alt=\"wallofmissiles650w\" width=\"650\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wallofmissiles650w.jpg 650w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wallofmissiles650w-150x108.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wallofmissiles650w-400x289.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wallofmissiles650w-500x361.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our &#8220;leaders&#8221; were hitching us back up to the war machine, our wages were hitting the dumper, but at least the goddamn&#8217; Rooskies couldn&#8217;t get us.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Missile Defense\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/gipperama\/wallofmissiles.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>medium-res jpg image, <\/strong><\/a>258k; <strong><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Missile Defense\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/gipperama\/wallofmissiles.tif\" target=\"_blank\">high-res tiff image,<\/a> <\/strong>452k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally on a roll at the Yipster Times. Before you start laughing, 13.9% was a ball-buster for a mortgage in 1981, at least as I recall &#8212; even for the &#8220;fixer-upper&#8221; portrayed below. This was about the time that the legendary Largest Arms Buildup Since The First Cold War was being cranked up, about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[1451,1454],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reagan-years","category-war-and-peace","tag-reagan-years","tag-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}