{"id":169,"date":"2005-09-16T23:24:39","date_gmt":"2005-09-17T04:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2005-09-17T16:37:23","modified_gmt":"2005-09-17T21:37:23","slug":"earth-to-space-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/16\/earth-to-space-and-back\/","title":{"rendered":"To Earth and Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/faces\/whatever.gif\" class=\"face\" \/>As he hurls through space, the blue-green planet slowly comes into view.  With a flick of the controls, he begins his approach at astronomical speeds.  The mission: test out the new navigational system recently downloaded into his ship&#8217;s mainframe.<\/p>\n<p>Floating hundreds of miles above the surface, he gently navigates over a funny S-shaped land mass. Midway through his descent, a sign that reads, &#8220;Grand Canyon,&#8221; suddenly becomes visible.  Strange, he thinks to himself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Seconds later, Las Vegas&#8230;then Los Angeles&#8211;<em>[pause]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[Zoom]<\/p>\n<p>[Rotate]<\/p>\n<p>[Adjust tilt]<\/p>\n<p>[Toggle roads]<\/p>\n<p>[Save image]<\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/images\/space\/space.jpg\" alt=\"Space\"  \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"javascript:showImage('space\/home-space-far-lg.jpg');\" title=\"Zoom\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/images\/space\/home-space-far-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Anaheim, CA\"  \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"javascript:showImage('space\/home-space-lg.jpg');\" title=\"Zoom\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/images\/space\/home-space-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Home\"  \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Click to zoom.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\" title=\"GoogleEarth, beta\">GoogleEarth, beta<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As he hurls through space, the blue-green planet slowly comes into view. With a flick of the controls, he begins his approach at astronomical speeds. The mission: test out the new navigational system recently downloaded into his ship&#8217;s mainframe. Floating hundreds of miles above the surface, he gently navigates over a funny S-shaped land mass. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}