{"id":9066,"date":"2016-06-25T19:30:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T23:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=9066"},"modified":"2023-03-19T12:05:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T16:05:58","slug":"hitchhikers-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2016\/06\/hitchhikers-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitchhiker&#8217;s guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone that grew up a geek in the late 70s to early 80s (ahem) will get the references in this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zd_DHMEkwUA\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For those of you that are unfamiliar:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, including stage shows, novels, comic book adaptations, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and 2005 feature film.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was most familiar with the video game, which came out about the same time I bought my first computer, the beloved Apple IIc. That might have been in 1986 or so.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230; It is nice to see a new generation of enthusiasts among the current Engineering students.<\/p>\n<p>So long, and thanks for all the fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone that grew up a geek in the late 70s to early 80s (ahem) will get the references in this video: For those of you that are unfamiliar: The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2016\/06\/hitchhikers-guide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hitchhiker&#8217;s guide<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-9066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11123,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions\/11123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}