{"id":771,"date":"2009-07-20T18:14:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T23:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=771"},"modified":"2009-07-20T18:14:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T23:14:49","slug":"it-was-40-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/20\/it-was-40-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"It was 40 years ago today&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Young Neil took a small step to play&#8230;&#8230;  On Earth&#8217;s moon so far away&#8230;..  Back again in 2020, so they say&#8230;..  I hope I&#8217;ll be around that day&#8230;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I can say that I got to see the whole thing unfold on a ungainly big box of a TV with a small screen (Television had only been around for less than 20 years &#8211; Electronics have <em>&#8220;Stargated&#8221;<\/em> since the late sixties)&#8230;..  I&#8217;m not saying how &#8220;old&#8221; I was at the time, but, everyone I knew was mesmerized by <strong>NASA<\/strong> &#8211; Man, real, live <strong>SPACE<\/strong> travel brought to you in your living room!&#8230;..  It was <strong>GREAT<\/strong>!&#8230;..  At that time, it was a given that people would be living on the Moon by the &#8217;90&#8217;s at the very latest&#8230;.  And, what did we do?&#8230;&#8230;  <strong>Nothing!<\/strong> &#8211; We beat the <strong>Russians<\/strong> to the Moon, so, as far as our Government was concerned, there was no reason to go back&#8230;..  That was a sad, sad day for us all&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I think we lost a lot as a nation when the Moon missions were over in 1972&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Neil took a small step to play&#8230;&#8230; On Earth&#8217;s moon so far away&#8230;.. Back again in 2020, so they say&#8230;.. I hope I&#8217;ll be around that day&#8230;&#8230; I can say that I got to see the whole thing unfold on a ungainly big box of a TV with a small screen (Television had only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,27,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}