{"id":867,"date":"2008-05-31T17:20:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T21:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=867"},"modified":"2008-05-31T17:20:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T21:20:40","slug":"still-awed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/05\/31\/still-awed\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Awed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Against all sensibility, the CSPAN coverage of today&#8217;s DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee has been on in this household.\u00c2\u00a0 Most every speech and statement-in-the-form-of-a-question I&#8217;ve heard has helped steel my already hardened cynicism about humanity in general.\u00c2\u00a0 But while CSPAN was waiting for the kabuki theater actors to get back from lunch, it ran the launch of the space shuttle Discovery live.\u00c2\u00a0 And still, after all these years, it transfixes.\u00c2\u00a0 It genuinely excites.\u00c2\u00a0 For all of our failures, our weaknesses, our inabilities &#8211; we&#8217;re in space.\u00c2\u00a0 And I am in awe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against all sensibility, the CSPAN coverage of today&#8217;s DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee has been on in this household.\u00c2\u00a0 Most every speech and statement-in-the-form-of-a-question I&#8217;ve heard has helped steel my already hardened cynicism about humanity in general.\u00c2\u00a0 But while CSPAN was waiting for the kabuki theater actors to get back from lunch, it ran the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}