{"id":1882,"date":"2009-07-20T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/20\/2009-7-20-spaceships-on-a-stick-html\/"},"modified":"2009-07-20T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T13:41:00","slug":"2009-7-20-spaceships-on-a-stick-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/2009-7-20-spaceships-on-a-stick-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaceships On A Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/step.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/step.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Walkies!\" \/><\/a><br \/>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Forty years ago today, the first American astronauts strode upon the moon. When I was three years old, I watched the moon landing on CBS. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Cronkite\">Uncle Walter<\/a>, when he or his analysts couldn&#8217;t actually describe a procedure, resorted to dramatic recreations of maneuvers using spaceships on sticks and waving them around the studio. Now they were speaking my language. Did I mention I was three?<\/p>\n<p>Two other things I recall were that this whole thing wouldn&#8217;t have seemed like a big deal, considering that we&#8217;d been flying around in space my entire life, but that it made Uncle Walter cry. It was either momentous or sad, and I really didn&#8217;t have the tools to tell which was which.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of course, the space shuttle is docked at the International Space Station fixing the toilets. Progress!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Forty years ago today, the first American astronauts strode upon the moon. When I was three years old, I watched the moon landing on CBS. Uncle Walter, when he or his analysts couldn&#8217;t actually describe a procedure, resorted to dramatic recreations of maneuvers using spaceships on sticks and waving them around the studio. Now &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/2009-7-20-spaceships-on-a-stick-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spaceships On A Stick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}