{"id":3744,"date":"2025-03-05T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2025-02-20T11:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:27:11","slug":"under-the-concealed-tail-hook-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=3744","title":{"rendered":"Under the Concealed Tail Hook of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Tail-Hook.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"518\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Tail-Hook-518x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Tail-Hook-518x1024.jpg 518w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Tail-Hook-152x300.jpg 152w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Tail-Hook.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Nikon D810, 1\/40 sec, f\/9.0, 40mm, ISO 4500<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the underside of an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lockheed_S-3_Viking\" title=\"\">S-3<\/a> Viking anti-submarine aircraft.  The main feature in the image is the tail hook used to catch arresting cables aboard aircraft carriers.  Imagine the stresses this endures when stopping a flying aircraft in a matter of feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aircraft Garden, Naval Air Station North Island: <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/ejYM3uQHgYuXo2YW9\" title=\"\">32.702579\u00b0 -117.194672\u00b0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikon D810, 1\/40 sec, f\/9.0, 40mm, ISO 4500 This is the underside of an S-3&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[539],"tags":[853,858,752,857,167,618,859,753],"class_list":["post-3744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","tag-california","tag-h-60","tag-image","tag-naval-air-station-north-island","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-san-diego","tag-scott-shaw-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3747,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions\/3747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}