{"id":547,"date":"2004-10-04T13:39:30","date_gmt":"2004-10-04T20:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=547"},"modified":"2012-05-08T10:34:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T17:34:22","slug":"from-earth-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2004\/10\/from-earth-to-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"From Earth to the MOon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I got to watch some TV this weekend. THey were showing this miniseries about how we got to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>It was eerie. All these suited men with glasses going, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if this is possible. It might not be possible&#8230;But we have to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And they proceeded to screw it up for the rest of us forever.<\/p>\n<p>HOW many times have I faced that same dillemma in my IT jobs?<\/p>\n<p>Management &#8220;we want this&#8221;<br \/>\nMe &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we can do that. I dont&#8217; think it&#8217;s possible.&#8221;<br \/>\nManagment &#8220;Have it ready by next tuesday&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Impossible doesn&#8217;t mean impossible anymore. Not for americans.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we wouldn&#8217;t have all these cool toys and stuff to have the jobs we do if it weren&#8217;t for NASA. I, of course, worked at NASA for a year intership to learn to do what I do.<\/p>\n<p>So I should be grateful.<\/p>\n<p>But man&#8230;we just can&#8217;t give no for an answer anymore. Not since we&#8217;ve sent a person to the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I got to watch some TV this weekend. THey were showing this miniseries about how we got to the moon. It was eerie. All these suited men with glasses going, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if this is possible. It might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2004\/10\/from-earth-to-the-moon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookworthy","category-theater-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}