{"id":15261,"date":"2009-07-20T13:16:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T19:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15261"},"modified":"2009-07-20T13:16:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T19:16:45","slug":"20-july-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/20\/20-july-1969.html","title":{"rendered":"20 July 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"

My memory isn’t very good.<\/p>\n

Which is to say that I remember lots of facts, but much of my personal memory, my life, tends to be a gestalt<\/em>, a blur of impressions and fragments. People wonder why I blog, and take so many photos? That’s why.<\/p>\n

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So my own memory of the first Moon landing isn’t the sharp, crisp, “everyone remembers where they were” kind of thing that so many people (who were alive at the time) is posting today.<\/p>\n

I would have been 8 years old — a bit younger than Katherine now, but still in that range. We were with my Mom’s folks up in Santa Barbara, on De La Guerra Terrace. The TV was in the downstairs (virtually a basement, except that they lived on such a slope). And I remember the event happening, and perhaps even some images on their black and white TV (was it actually black and white?) of the landing, and then of the climbing down. I remember my folks, and Nono and Nona, watching the TV.<\/p>\n

And that, unfortunately, is that. No remembered great resolve to someday go into space myself, or anything like that. Flickers of memory far less substantial than the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A shame, that. Though less of a shame than how mundane it all became, before we decided that, no, spending money on manned space flight was a waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My memory isn’t very good. Which is to say that I remember lots of facts, but much of my personal memory, my life, tends to be a gestalt, a blur of impressions and fragments. People wonder why I blog, and take so many photos? That’s why. 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