{"id":662,"date":"2009-08-07T00:52:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T04:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2010-04-17T20:56:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T00:56:27","slug":"the-beginings-of-from-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/07\/the-beginings-of-from-above\/","title":{"rendered":"The beginings of From Above&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..March 2008  New York to Hiroshima and Nagasaki..<\/p>\n<p>I find myself once again traveling to the Edge of the World.  This time to speak with people who have experienced the worst of human actions.  It&#8217;s remarkable how an event as disturbing as the detonation of the atomic bomb can be lauded as victory for some members of the human population.  <\/p>\n<p>A technology so advanced used to destroy and ravage a fellow human.  Think about how we could have put the immense resources and advanced science to better human kind?  <\/p>\n<p>..I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s guilt or curiosity of what the Survivors of the atomic bomb, Hibakusha, have endured that has me traveling to the other side of the world to meet strangers.  It&#8217;s both.  With an explanation mark on GUILT!  <\/p>\n<p>What do you say to a fellow human who has lived through this horrible experience?  Am I worthy to look into their eyes?  I have a lot of respect for what the Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have endured.  <\/p>\n<p>Maybe listening to their story is the greatest sign of respect I can show each Survivor and victim of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  Ignoring the fact this happened and people have suffered a lifetime of pain that I could not imagine would be the disrespect a majority of people have showed.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/1aaa3.jpg\" alt=\"1aaa\" title=\"1aaa\" width=\"590\" height=\"591\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-664\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/1aaa3.jpg 590w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/1aaa3-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/1aaa3-299x300.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Blog44.jpg\" alt=\"Blog44\" title=\"Blog44\" width=\"580\" height=\"692\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-665\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Blog44.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Blog44-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar gaJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/ssl.\" : \"http:\/\/www.\");\ndocument.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + gaJsHost + \"google-analytics.com\/ga.js' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ntry {\nvar pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"UA-12680478-1\");\npageTracker._trackPageview();\n} catch(err) {}<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..March 2008 New York to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.. 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It&#8217;s remarkable how an event as disturbing as the detonation of the atomic bomb can be lauded as victory for some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,109,99,100],"tags":[576,574,570,126,571,569],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-above","category-hibakusha","category-hiroshima","category-nagasaki","tag-from-above","tag-hibakusha","tag-hiroshima","tag-epi-center-nagasaki","tag-nagasaki","tag-the-edge-of-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}