{"id":2125,"date":"2026-03-29T22:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:45:07","slug":"a-man-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/a-man-on-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Man On The Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B016J1MH4U\/\">book<\/a> as an offer. I has been long to read and sometimes thought to leave it. I try to take the positive side. I learned about the different Apollo missions, challenges, failures, successes and the people who step on the Moon. Each one with its own peculiar character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One can think that the huge investment in taking humans in the moon has not been recovered. I think that helped the USA beat the URSS, and get something positive while Vietnam war&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe we need something similar again, a far fetched goal that gets us together and focus in something bigger than ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this book as an offer. I has been long to read and sometimes thought to leave it. I try to take the positive side. I learned about the different Apollo missions, challenges, failures, successes and the people who step on the Moon. Each one with its own peculiar character. One can think that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/a-man-on-the-moon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Man On The Moon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2126,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}