{"id":32022,"date":"2013-01-02T13:36:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T20:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/02\/honoring-neil-armstrong.html"},"modified":"2013-01-02T13:36:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T20:36:26","slug":"honoring-neil-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/02\/honoring-neil-armstrong.html","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Neil Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I kinda thought the House had more important things to do on Monday (cough),\u00a0this is a good thing and a worthy honor.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108952536790629690817\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"108952536790629690817\">Philip Plait<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107051665537162034944'>Amy Shira Teitel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Monday to rename NASA&#39;s aeronautics facility at Edwards Air Force Base in California after Neil Armstrong<\/b>. I don&#39;t normally care about renaming buildings or centres, but this one makes me happy. Armstrong was, after all, first and foremost a pilot and engineer:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amyshirateitel.com\/2012\/08\/25\/neil-armstrong-ace-engineer-and-hotshot-test-pilot\/\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/amyshirateitel.com\/2012\/08\/25\/neil-armstrong-ace-engineer-and-hotshot-test-pilot\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/107051665537162034944\/albums\/5828571747783562321\/5828571752156933746?authkey=CN-79-Olnp_V5gE'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-QoztmDoJj4k\/UOM_IKMwrnI\/AAAAAAAADtE\/nvM00Y3khgk\/Armstrong%2BReading%2BLIFE.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> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/jgSme1fs1j5' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I kinda thought the House had more important things to do on Monday (cough),\u00a0this is a good thing and a worthy honor. (h\/t +Philip Plait) Reshared post from +Amy Shira Teitel The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Monday to rename NASA&#39;s aeronautics facility at Edwards Air Force Base in California after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/02\/honoring-neil-armstrong.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Honoring 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","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":32022,"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":29967,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/25\/the-stars-my-destination.html","url_meta":{"origin":32022,"position":1},"title":"The stars my destination","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 25-Aug-12 5:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Wil Wheaton on the passing of Neil Armstrong. 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