{"id":3556,"date":"2012-08-25T23:34:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T06:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/08\/neil-armstrong-gone\/"},"modified":"2012-08-27T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T21:43:10","slug":"neil-armstrong-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/25\/neil-armstrong-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Armstrong Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/opinions\/14731197-474\/editorial-america-should-shoot-for-the-stars-again.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The Chicago Sun-Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Editorial: America should shoot for the stars again<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/csp\/cms\/sites\/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls?STREAMOID=4nbCScBmWY85Tf7IEG2WzM$daE2N3K4ZzOUsqbU5sYsnOOF$V5zo7JsPwIlLFqAjWCsjLu883Ygn4B49Lvm9bPe2QeMKQdVeZmXF$9l$4uCZ8QDXhaHEp3rvzXRJFdy0KqPHLoMevcTLo3h8xh70Y6N_U_CryOsw6FTOdKL_jpQ-&amp;CONTENTTYPE=image\/jpeg\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"240\" height=\"307\" align=\"left\" \/>The moment Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon, he became slightly other\u00adworldly in our eyes, cloaked in a golden aura that did not sit easily with his shy and private ways.<\/p>\n<p>But Armstrong understood the power of that aura and used it, sparingly, over the years for a cause he believed in fully: human space exploration. One of his last high-profile public appearances, in 2010, was to testify before a Congressional committee against the Obama administration\u2019s plan to redirect NASA\u2019s efforts away from human exploration of space and toward more basic long-term science research.<\/p>\n<p>That, Armstrong said, would be \u201cdevastating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s first priority, he said with a touch of the same poetry he brought to his first step on the moon, should be \u201clearning to sail on this new ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/opinions\/14731197-474\/editorial-america-should-shoot-for-the-stars-again.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Chicago Sun-Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: America should shoot for the stars again The moment Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon, he became slightly other\u00adworldly in our eyes, cloaked in a golden aura that did not sit easily with his shy and private ways. But Armstrong understood the power of that aura and used it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}