{"id":243,"date":"2009-07-20T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T03:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2009-08-21T03:25:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T10:25:04","slug":"moon-walk-july-20-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Moon Walk, July 20, 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in rural Idaho in a home without television. But forty years ago today, our family stopped by a neighbor&#8217;s home on the way home from evening church service to watch television coverage of the the moon landing. What a wonderful experience! I had grown up through the age of Sputnik, Vanguard, Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. The first time I can remember being punished for doing something wrong was when I stole paper from my first grade classroom to draw pictures of rockets! To witness the first manned space flight to the moon was fantastic.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Flag on the Moon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americansc.org.uk\/images\/NASA\/Flag.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto;  margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" title=\"Flag on Moon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americansc.org.uk\/images\/NASA\/flag.jpg\" alt=\"Flag on Moon\" width=\"530\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So today, as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of this event, I tip my hat again to all those who made it possible &#8211; from President Kennedy who challenged the nation to accomplish this incredible feat &#8211; to the engineers who used slide rules, not handheld calcualtors, to design the equipment &#8211; to the brave astronauts who had the privilege to make the journey. Bravo all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in rural Idaho in a home without television. But forty years ago today, our family stopped by a neighbor&#8217;s home on the way home from evening church service to watch television coverage of the the moon landing. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=243\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[26,35,36,46],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-photo","tag-flag","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}