{"id":4216,"date":"2004-08-12T18:06:17","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T18:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2004-08-12T18:06:17","modified_gmt":"2004-08-12T18:06:17","slug":"on_this_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4216","title":{"rendered":"On This Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>27 years ago today, at the young age of 8, I was attending a program for &#8216;gifted&#8217; children at a place called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmsc.org\/\">Talcott Mountain Science Center<\/a>.  I was taking an astronomy class and got to watch the first test flight of the Space Shuttle &#8220;Enterprise&#8221; as it was launched (somewhat) from the back of a 747.  I remember them working hard to get a good tv signal and us eventually seeing a scratchy version of it on TV.  At the time I thought it was one of the coolest things I&#8217;d ever seen, and it still ranks pretty high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27 years ago today, at the young age of 8, I was attending a program for &#8216;gifted&#8217; children at a place called the Talcott Mountain Science Center. I was taking an astronomy class and got to watch the first test flight of the Space Shuttle &#8220;Enterprise&#8221; as it was launched (somewhat) from the back of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}