{"id":29964,"date":"2012-08-25T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/25\/rip-neil-armstrong.html"},"modified":"2012-08-25T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:38:09","slug":"rip-neil-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/25\/rip-neil-armstrong.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Neil Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small step for any man, 43 years after his giant leap for mankind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108404515213153345305'>Breaking News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Neil Armstrong, the 1st man on the moon, has died at age 82<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/114810779645279671611\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"114810779645279671611\">NBC News<\/a><\/span> reports that Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died Saturday, weeks after\u00a0heart surgery and\u00a0days after his 82nd birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, and he radioed back to Earth the historic news of &quot;one giant leap for mankind.&quot; He spent nearly three hours walking on the moon with fellow astronaut Edwin &quot;Buzz&quot; Aldrin.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read more:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/08\/25\/13478643-astronaut-neil-young-first-man-to-walk-on-moon-dies-at-age-82\" >http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/08\/25\/13478643-astronaut-neil-young-first-man-to-walk-on-moon-dies-at-age-82<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Follow updates:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakingnews.com\/topic\/neil-armstrong-dies\" >http:\/\/www.breakingnews.com\/topic\/neil-armstrong-dies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23NeilArmstrong\">#NeilArmstrong<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>______<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Get real-time breaking news updates on your Android, iPhone, iPad or Kindle Fire with one of our free apps:<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakingnews.com\/about\/mobile\" >http:\/\/www.breakingnews.com\/about\/mobile<\/a><br \/><i>______<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-n4VLmMVkw1Q\/UDkiepK4HjI\/AAAAAAAAau8\/cD0rX3EBFDU\/neil.jpeg'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-n4VLmMVkw1Q\/UDkiepK4HjI\/AAAAAAAAau8\/cD0rX3EBFDU\/neil.jpeg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/G7QYrS8T66g' target='_new'>1<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/G7QYrS8T66g' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small step for any man, 43 years after his giant leap for mankind. Reshared post from +Breaking News Neil 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 his 82nd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/25\/rip-neil-armstrong.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP, Neil Armstrong&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[231],"class_list":["post-29964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-neilarmstrong"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9971,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/03\/time_to_start_updating_al.html","url_meta":{"origin":29964,"position":0},"title":"Time to start updating all those quotation books?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 3-Oct-06 1:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Neil Armstrong has long maintained that his 1969 first-man-on-the-moon quote was: That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. 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We were up at my mom's folks place, up in Santa Barbara, with the TV in the basement lounge on, watching things.I can remember bits and bobs of the landing, but not a lot -- this kind of stuff has too much waiting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/14%2B-%2B1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":18655,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/21\/more-on-the-don-armstrong-felony-thief-for-now-case.html","url_meta":{"origin":29964,"position":5},"title":"More on the Don Armstrong (felony thief, for now) case","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Sep-10 8:29am","format":false,"excerpt":"After a few days, a few more stories in the news illuminating how the\u00a0 Don Armstrong case went from 20-odd felony theft indictments by the grand jury to \"no contest\" on one felony theft and one misdemeanor theft case. 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