{"id":7738,"date":"2016-07-20T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7738"},"modified":"2016-07-17T22:53:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T03:53:36","slug":"halfway-to-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/halfway-to-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Halfway to something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7739\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MissionControl.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MissionControl.jpg 540w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MissionControl-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>December 30, 2005:<\/strong> Restored Apollo-era Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today Bill Clinton&#8217;s first presidential inauguration \u2014 Jan. 20, 1993 \u2014 marks the halfway point between the moon landing and the present day. Starting now, events during the Clinton administration shift past this historical marker.<\/p>\n<p>Remember a country that, literally and metaphorically, thought the sky was the limit? I miss that place, or at the very least, I miss hearing about it.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/726338\/the-code-that-took-america-to-the-moon-was-just-published-to-github-and-its-like-a-1960s-time-capsule\/\">The code for the Apollo computer has been uploaded to the Internet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowastatedaily.com\/news\/article_d57031c0-5933-510d-bd0a-23d4026ba498.html\">Iowan&#8217;s &#8220;Go&#8221; made difference for Apollo 11<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 30, 2005: Restored Apollo-era Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Today Bill Clinton&#8217;s first presidential inauguration \u2014 Jan. 20, 1993 \u2014 marks the halfway point between the moon landing and the present day. Starting now, events &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/halfway-to-something\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7758,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738\/revisions\/7758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}