{"id":62,"date":"2007-03-17T09:10:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-17T15:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=62"},"modified":"2007-03-17T09:11:44","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T15:11:44","slug":"rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,72852-0.html?tw=rss.technology\">Goddard<\/a> Day.  I love this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As for the press &#8212; especially The New York Times, which had been very hard on Goddard and openly mocked his belief of reaching the moon in a 1920 editorial &#8212; it eventually came around. On July 17, 1969, the day after Apollo 11 left for the moon, the Times got around to running this belated retraction:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Further investigation and experimentation have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th century and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an atmosphere. The Times regrets the error.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Based on this, I think we can expect the Times to acknowledge that Reagan&#8217;s tax cuts were a good thing, oh, about 2031.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Goddard Day. I love this: As for the press &#8212; especially The New York Times, which had been very hard on Goddard and openly mocked his belief of reaching the moon in a 1920 editorial &#8212; it eventually came around. On July 17, 1969, the day after Apollo 11 left for the moon, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=62\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rockets<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BzKF-rockets","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}