{"id":9650,"date":"2019-07-16T09:25:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T13:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9650"},"modified":"2019-07-16T09:25:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T13:25:48","slug":"moon-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9650","title":{"rendered":"Moon shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years ago today, fifty years ago this very hour in fact, at 9:32 AM EDT on July 16, 2019, Apollo 11 was launched.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9651\" style=\"width: 775px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9651\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9651\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apollo11-launch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"765\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apollo11-launch.jpg 765w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apollo11-launch-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moonbound Apollo 11 clears the launch tower. NASA photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And thus began a journey that, arguably, remains the greatest adventure in human history to date.<\/p>\n<p>I was six years old in 1969, hooked on the novels of Jules Verne. With Apollo 11, Verne&#8217;s bold imagination became the reality of the day.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9650' 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>Fifty years ago today, fifty years ago this very hour in fact, at 9:32 AM EDT on July 16, 2019, Apollo 11 was launched. And thus began a journey that, arguably, remains the greatest adventure in human history to date. I was six years old in 1969, hooked on the novels of Jules Verne. With <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9650' 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":[25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-space","category-25-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\/9650","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=9650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9654,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions\/9654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}