{"id":867,"date":"2011-01-28T18:27:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T23:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/?p=867"},"modified":"2011-01-28T18:27:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T23:27:49","slug":"the-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/the-challenger\/867\/","title":{"rendered":"The Challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s January 28, and of course I&#8217;m rememering the Challenger. <\/p>\n<p>This pretty much says it all:<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog_pics\/challenger_guys.jpg\" alt=\"The Challenger astronauts - civvies here\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Why did I put that pic first? Because before they were astronauts &#8211; even more important than that they were astronauts &#8211; first they were just people. Courageous, outrageous, fun-loving, silly, ordinary people. Well. Maybe not ordinary. <\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the official one: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog_pics\/challenger_crew.jpg\" alt=\"The official Challenger Crew pic\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yes, they are heroes. Not because they died. That was just &#8211; stuff happens. Bad stuff happens. They were heroes because they wanted to go, and worked for it, and knew it was risky, and WANTED to go. <\/p>\n<p>So this is for Greg Jarvis, Christa Mcauliffe, Ron McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judy Resnick, Dick Scobee, and Michael Smith. Thanks, guys. You&#8217;re not forgotten. R.I.P. and God bless. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s January 28, and of course I&#8217;m rememering the Challenger. <\/p>\n<p>This pretty much says it all: <\/p>\n<p>Why did I put that pic first? Because before they were astronauts &#8211; even more important than that they were astronauts &#8211; first they were just people. Courageous, outrageous, fun-loving, silly, ordinary people. Well. Maybe not ordinary. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[64,120],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","tag-news","tag-our-world","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}