{"id":129647,"date":"2016-02-06T00:07:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T07:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/06\/the-passing-of-the-men-on-the-moon.html"},"modified":"2016-02-08T15:05:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T22:05:44","slug":"the-passing-of-the-men-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/06\/the-passing-of-the-men-on-the-moon.html","title":{"rendered":"The Passing of the Men on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#39;know, it&#39;d be awfully keen if we could, oh, I don&#39;t know, <i>actually put <\/i><b><i>more<\/i><\/b><i> people on the Moon,<\/i> or Mars, or someplace, before all those original space pioneers die off. Pass the torch, as it were.<\/p>\n<p>Just a thought.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Boing Boing<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, 6th man on the moon, dies at age 85 <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2016\/02\/05\/apollo-astronaut-edgar-mitchel.html\">http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2016\/02\/05\/apollo-astronaut-edgar-mitchel.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/104253774537638039236\/albums\/6247957834293310641\/6247957835471041618'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-MWRLHyoTh84\/VrU0jFretFI\/AAAAAAACO2I\/PuUP99JFOfE\/17638476-3fbd-4745-85ed-b92f22d3d635?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/7DbfUzujwV7'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#39;know, it&#39;d be awfully keen if we could, oh, I don&#39;t know, actually put more people on the Moon, or Mars, or someplace, before all those original space pioneers die off. Pass the torch, as it were. Just a thought. Originally shared by +Boing Boing: Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, 6th man on the moon, dies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/06\/the-passing-of-the-men-on-the-moon.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Passing of the Men on the Moon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/17638476-3fbd-4745-85ed-b92f22d3d635imgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29964,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/25\/rip-neil-armstrong.html","url_meta":{"origin":129647,"position":0},"title":"RIP, Neil Armstrong","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 25-Aug-12 1:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A small step for any man, 43 years after his giant leap for mankind.Reshared post from +Breaking NewsNeil Armstrong, the 1st man on the moon, has died at age 82+NBC News reports that Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died Saturday, weeks after\u00a0heart surgery and\u00a0days after\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128230,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/05\/moon-shots.html","url_meta":{"origin":129647,"position":1},"title":"Moon Shots","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Oct-15 8:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"This is part of what makes the Internet and the digital age an awesome thing. 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