{"id":75,"date":"2006-12-20T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2021-09-21T16:34:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T16:34:53","slug":"conquistadors-with-redstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/20\/conquistadors-with-redstone\/","title":{"rendered":"Conquistadors with Redstone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside a museum in Old Town there is a set of bronze sculptures which commemorate the Spanish conquistadors and colonial families who came to New Mexico in the 16th century.\u00a0 Accross the street, the National Atomic Museum has a decommissioned Redstone missile on permanent display.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a profound juxtaposition of time and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Some people have protested the inclusion of such an overt symbol of war and destruction in the tourist center of the city (they&#8217;re referring to the rocket, not the conquistadors, in case you were wondering).\u00a0 I think both are inescapable elements of Albuquerque&#8217;s history.\u00a0 They are woven into its DNA and shape the city, and hiding either one won&#8217;t make it any less so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20061220111144_conquistador-redstone.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20061220111144_conquistador-redstone.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20061220111144_conquistador-redstone-166x300.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption>OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside a museum in Old Town there is a set of bronze sculptures which commemorate the Spanish conquistadors and colonial families who came to New Mexico in the 16th century.\u00a0 Accross the street, the National Atomic Museum has a decommissioned Redstone missile on permanent display.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a profound juxtaposition of time and technology. Some people <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/20\/conquistadors-with-redstone\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}