{"id":1152,"date":"2006-07-20T18:20:38","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T18:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:49","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:49","slug":"one_small_step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1152","title":{"rendered":"One Small Step…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just thought I’d take a second to remind people that today, 37 years ago, Neal Armstrong set foot on the moon. It’s worth it to take a moment and remember what we’re capable of as a species and a people.<\/p>\n

We rented one disc of the great miniseries ‘From The Earth To The Moon<\/a>‘, and then went ahead and bought it.<\/p>\n

One reason I love this series so much is that it honors not only the astronauts, but all the people in white polyester short-sleeved shirts who stood behind them and made the machines that took them on their voyages.<\/p>\n

We don’t tend to value those people much these days, and we ought to. I had dinner (with a LA Times journalist, no less – Susan Carpenter<\/a>, their new motorcycle columnist) in Los Feliz a while ago, and one thought I had as a walked past the cafes full of well-travelled, well-dressed tattooed hipsters was that they would look on those guys with contempt. But they couldn’t have built an airplane, a motorcycle – or the loom their clothes were made on – to save their lives.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a moment today and honor the men and women who can.<\/p>\n

[I’m arithmetic-challenged today…fixed.]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s the anniversary of the first Moon landing; take a moment and honor all the men and women in badly-fitting clothes who made the machines they used, and who make all the machines we use today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}