{"id":459,"date":"2004-01-10T21:32:36","date_gmt":"2004-01-11T02:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/to_the_moon\/"},"modified":"2004-01-10T21:32:36","modified_gmt":"2004-01-11T02:32:36","slug":"to_the_moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/to_the_moon\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So why is President Bush taking about establishing a moon station?  Is this merely an election-year ploy?  Is this a backhanded way of revving up the aerospace industry and militarizing space?  Does this stem from a personal intellectual fascination with the wonders of space?  (Ha ha ha)<br \/>\nAccording to the <i>Washington Post<\/i>, the administration seeks a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A2311-2004Jan9?language=printer\">Kennedy moment<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Sources involved in the discussions said Bush and his advisers view the new plans for human space travel as a way to unify the country behind a gigantic common purpose at a time when relations between the parties are strained and polls show that Americans are closely divided on many issues.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s going back to being a uniter, not a divider,&#8221; a presidential adviser said, echoing language from Bush&#8217;s previous campaign, &#8220;and trying to rally people emotionally around a great national purpose.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[See Ezra Klein&#8217;s post on why this is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandagon.net\/mtarchives\/000500.html\">missed opportunity to bring people together<\/a>.]<br \/>\nSo who really knows what&#8217;s going on behind the scenes.  Just to be safe, though, it might not be a bad idea to make sure that neither the Bush&#8217;s nor any of their cronies have a financial interest in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunarlandrush.com\/\">this company<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/to_the_moon\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to To the Moon\"><p>So why is President Bush taking about establishing a moon station? Is this merely an election-year ploy? Is this a backhanded way of revving up the aerospace industry and militarizing space? Does this stem from a personal intellectual fascination with the wonders of space? (Ha ha ha) According to the Washington Post, the administration seeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}