{"id":4514,"date":"2009-07-21T06:27:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T10:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2009-07-21T06:27:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T10:27:03","slug":"the-moon-on-being-totally-over-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/21\/the-moon-on-being-totally-over-it\/","title":{"rendered":"the moon; on being totally over it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the current hoopla over the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, I still stand by <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/from-the-earth-to-the-moon-from-the-earth-to-the-moon\/\">what I wrote four years ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\nI know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never make it to space. I have no interest in messing up our environment here, just to get somewhere colder and less hospitable. I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m expected to be a space-nut, since I was born just before the moon landing, grew up with SkyLab and such, and became an engineer. But if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that much trouble to travel so short a distance in space, what chance have we in the stars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the current hoopla over the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, I still stand by what I wrote four years ago: I know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never make it to space. I have no interest in messing up our environment here, just to get somewhere colder and less hospitable. I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m expected to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1036,1581],"class_list":["post-4514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-1036","tag-moon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1aO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4515,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions\/4515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}