{"id":827,"date":"2005-07-20T16:26:55","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T16:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:15","slug":"july_20_1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=827","title":{"rendered":"July 20, 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imageright\"><img alt=\"Apollo 11 Crew\" src=\"http:\/\/windsofchange.net\/images\/SPACE_Apollo_11_Crew.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/div>\n<p>On July 20, 1969, I woke up in the middle of the night in the Las Vegas hotel where my family was staying.<\/p>\n<p>On the painfully small TV set, I sat, enraptured, and watched the grainy, blurred, almost incomprehensible images that came back from the moon as Neil Armstrong stepped down and off the ladder and onto the lunar soil.<\/p>\n<p>The poor quality of the images didn&#8217;t matter; my imagination filled them in more than satisfactorily.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t describe the feeling it gave me; I had no personal association with the space program through my family or friends, but somehow I felt part of it nonetheless, and felt that somehow Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (yes, and Michael Collins) represented all of us&#8230;all humanity.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re a species capable of great and terrible things. Let&#8217;s choose great ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 20, 1969, I woke up in the middle of the night in the Las Vegas hotel where my family was staying. On the painfully small TV set, I sat, enraptured, and watched the grainy, blurred, almost incomprehensible images that came back from the moon as Neil Armstrong stepped down and off the ladder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827"}],"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=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}