{"id":7463,"date":"2015-12-24T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T22:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2015-12-24T17:00:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T22:00:47","slug":"all-the-good-people-on-the-good-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7463","title":{"rendered":"All the good people on the good Earth&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has become a habit of mine. On Christmas Eve Day, I like to offer my best wishes to all my friends, members of my extended family, and indeed to all good people on this Earth with the words of the\u00a0first three human beings in history who left our planet and entered orbit around another celestial body: The astronauts of Apollo 8, who accomplished their historic mission at the end of one of the most tumultuous years since World War 2, 1968.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2487\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/earthrise_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/earthrise_small.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/earthrise_small-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And as they emerged from the dark side of the Moon and reestablished radio contact with the Earth, they greeted their fellow humans by quoting from the Book of Genesis. They then finished their broadcast with these unforgettable words: &#8220;<em>And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas and God bless all of you \u2013 all of you on the good Earth.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7463' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has become a habit of mine. On Christmas Eve Day, I like to offer my best wishes to all my friends, members of my extended family, and indeed to all good people on this Earth with the words of the\u00a0first three human beings in history who left our planet and entered orbit around another <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7463' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,38,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-religion","category-space","category-35-id","category-38-id","category-26-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7465,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions\/7465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}