{"id":143,"date":"2007-01-09T11:52:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T15:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2007-01-09T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T15:52:36","slug":"the-thing-thats-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"The Thing That&#8217;s Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a sort of unpleasant &#8220;A-ha!&#8221; yesterday at work.  I&#8217;m a government contractor who works on-site, and unfortunately this means that I have to attend a lot of the meetings usually reserved for federal employees or souls in the First Circle of Hell.  I had to go listen to one of the new Undersecretaries introduce himself yesterday, and he said something in passing that really struck me; but not, I&#8217;m sure, the way he intended.  It was in the context of research and technological advancement, but what he said was, &#8220;We had the space program in the 60s, and defense programs in the 70s and 80s&#8230;and 90s.&#8221;  I kind of felt like Ruk the android* (&#8220;<EM>That<\/EM> was the equation!&#8221;): There, in a single sentence, is why, 40 years after going to the Moon, we&#8217;re finally planning to&#8230;go back to the Moon.  :::sigh:::<P>*Only shorter.  And less bald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a sort of unpleasant &#8220;A-ha!&#8221; yesterday at work. I&#8217;m a government contractor who works on-site, and unfortunately this means that I have to attend a lot of the meetings usually reserved for federal employees or souls in the First Circle of Hell. I had to go listen to one of the new Undersecretaries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}