{"id":3657,"date":"2017-07-21T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T23:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2017-07-21T09:26:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T00:26:24","slug":"anniversary-of-the-moon-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/anniversary-of-the-moon-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of the Moon Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 48th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the moon. Arthur Clarke and Robert Heinlein discuss it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b3LhFaPDeD0?t=26s\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/b3LhFaPDeD0?t=26s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the striking aspects of the discussion was the universal optimism among the participants. Even Cronkite was unwavering, saying, &#8220;You can&#8217;t stop progress, and this is progress&#8230; We stop a lot of other things. It can&#8217;t be done.&#8221; Which member of the media would make such a statement today?<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3657\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3657\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 48th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the moon. Arthur Clarke and Robert Heinlein discuss it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b3LhFaPDeD0?t=26s\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/b3LhFaPDeD0?t=26s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the striking aspects of the discussion was the universal optimism among the participants. Even Cronkite was unwavering, saying, &#8220;You can&#8217;t stop progress, and this is progress&#8230; We stop a lot of other things. It can&#8217;t be done.&#8221; Which member of the media would make such a statement today?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3657\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i> <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3657\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3662,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions\/3662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}