{"id":221,"date":"2009-07-16T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/07\/16\/day-to-remember\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:17","slug":"day-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/07\/16\/day-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"A day to remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_plNK-YE-FJo\/Sl-Qbmg4HAI\/AAAAAAAAAeo\/KXAMmYddVK8\/s1600-h\/blast_off.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 191px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blast_off.jpg?w=629\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359160885463489538\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Forty years ago today, July 16, 1969, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apollo_11\">Apollo 11<\/a> blasted off into the heavens, bound for the moon and launching a new era in space travel. If you are going to draw up a list of events that re-shaped society, walking on the moon certainly rates as one of them.<\/p>\n<p>To honour the occasion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/apollo\/40th\/index.html\">NASA has launched a special commemorative website<\/a>, featuring a collection of restored video clips from that historic trip. And &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2009\/07\/remembering_apollo_11.html\">The Big Picture<\/a>&#8221; blog has a great collection of photos culled from that magical trip. I&#8217;m amazed how many of those images have become icons that I instantly recognize.  (<a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2009\/07\/remembering_apollo_11.html\">Link to the story<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>What were you doing back then? I have a memory of playing little league baseball during that time, although I can&#8217;t be sure. But I also remember watching the first steps and those pictures from the moon, so I must have been at home when they were on the moon. Or maybe I just remember the pictures from all the times I&#8217;ve seen them over the years.<\/p>\n<p>No matter. It was, and still is, a pivotal event.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, just yesterday, a Canadian, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellomagazine.ca\/news\/20090716783\/Julie\/Payette\/Endeavour\/1\/\">Julie Payette<\/a>, headed into space on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TECH\/space\/07\/15\/space.shuttle.endeavour\/index.html\">Space Shuttle Endeavour<\/a>, bound for the International Space Station, where another Canadian, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asc-csa.gc.ca\/eng\/astronauts\/biothirsk.asp\">Robert Thirsk<\/a>,<br \/>is waiting to greet her. Two Canadians in space at the same time. Another big moment in time worth remembering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago today, July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 blasted off into the heavens, bound for the moon and launching a new era in space travel. If you are going to draw up a list of events that re-shaped society, walking on the moon certainly rates as one of them. To honour the occasion, NASA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":994,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-3z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blast_off.jpg?fit=191%2C400&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}