{"id":331,"date":"2008-08-06T10:10:58","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T15:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2008-08-06T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T15:10:58","slug":"i-need-to-see-something-explode-into-space-sometime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/06\/i-need-to-see-something-explode-into-space-sometime\/","title":{"rendered":"I need to see something explode into space, sometime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend sent me this video that someone took of a shuttle launch while passing nearby in a commercial plane:\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Xv5J5cBwwFc&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It just reminds me that I&#8217;ve always wanted to see a shuttle launch&#8230;or rocket launch in general. I have a certain longing to see stuff explode into space. It gnaws at me&#8230;or it could be the antibiotics. Either way, this past weekend&#8217;s failed Space X launch contributes to the mood as well. (Sorry about the rocket, Elon. Spectacular job with the webcast, BTW)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/highlights\/schedule.html\">NASA&#8217;s launch schedule<\/a>. The problem with scheduling a trip is that things rarely seem to go off when planned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend sent me this video that someone took of a shuttle launch while passing nearby in a commercial plane:\u00c2\u00a0 It just reminds me that I&#8217;ve always wanted to see a shuttle launch&#8230;or rocket launch in general. I have a certain longing to see stuff explode into space. It gnaws at me&#8230;or it could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-5l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}