{"id":2443,"date":"2013-07-09T20:47:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T20:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2013-07-09T20:47:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T20:47:02","slug":"national-park-on-moon-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2443","title":{"rendered":"National park on moon? Bad idea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Two Democratic congresswomen want to set aside space on the moon, of all places, for a national historical park.<\/p>\n<p>Bad idea, ladies of the House.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/floor-action\/house\/309829-dems-propose-historical-park-on-the-moon\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/floor-action\/house\/309829-dems-propose-historical-park-on-the-moon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas and Donna Edwards of Maryland think it&#8217;s OK to set the land aside and furnish it with memorabilia taken from all the moon missions that occurred from 1969 through 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Allow me this brief historical recap.<\/p>\n<p>The Apollo 11 mission, the first one to the moon, occurred in July 1969. There was a brief debate within NASA over who should command that mission. The task fell to Neil Armstrong partly because at the time he was a <em>civilian<\/em> test pilot and was not serving on active military duty.<\/p>\n<p>The idea was intended to deny the Soviet Union any political ammo. We were involved in a race to the moon with the Soviets. We got there first and NASA didn&#8217;t want the Evil Empire to concoct some half-baked theory that a military man planting the Stars and Stripes would constitute some kind of goofy military conquest.<\/p>\n<p>The moon missions were intended to promote at some level a sense of international peace and understanding.<\/p>\n<p>The notion now of making a national park site out of one or more landing areas flies in the face of that mission. There is no compelling need to establish such a park on moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Democratic congresswomen want to set aside space on the moon, of all places, for a national historical park. Bad idea, ladies of the House. http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/floor-action\/house\/309829-dems-propose-historical-park-on-the-moon Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas and Donna Edwards of Maryland think it&#8217;s OK to set the land aside and furnish it with memorabilia taken from all the moon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National park on moon? Bad idea<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}