{"id":142,"date":"2003-02-01T08:13:11","date_gmt":"2003-02-01T16:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2003\/02\/01\/wow-space-shuttle-flashbacks\/"},"modified":"2003-02-01T08:13:11","modified_gmt":"2003-02-01T16:13:11","slug":"wow-space-shuttle-flashbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/02\/01\/wow-space-shuttle-flashbacks","title":{"rendered":"Wow\u2013Space Shuttle Flashbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morn\u00ading to the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/fc?cid=34&amp;tmpl=fc&amp;in=Science&amp;cat=Space_Shuttle\">the Space Shut\u00adtle blew up<\/a> on re-entry.<\/p>\n<p>I had two thoughts rush through my mind imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly: <\/p>\n<p>1) Wow\u2013I vivid\u00adly remem\u00adber the last time this hap\u00adpened. It shocked me deeply\u2013the idea that our sci\u00adence was\u00adn\u2019t per\u00adfect and that Amer\u00adi\u00adca could make a mis\u00adtake and that heroes could die.<\/p>\n<p>2) The first Israeli astro\u00adnaut was on the shut\u00adtle, and it\u2019s such a high-pro\u00adfile Amer\u00adi\u00adcan sym\u00adbol: it sure would be an attrac\u00adtive tar\u00adget to ter\u00adror\u00adists\u2026 Acci\u00addents hap\u00adpen, and I hope that\u2019s all it was. If it was ter\u00adror\u00adists, it would have to be some sort of sab\u00ado\u00adtage before the shut\u00adtle took off (that, or some\u00adone on the shut\u00adtle would have had to turn traitor\u2013something I con\u00adsid\u00ader extreme\u00adly unlike\u00adly).<\/p>\n<p>I have intense sym\u00adpa\u00adthy for the fam\u00adi\u00adlies of the astro\u00adnauts: may God com\u00adfort their hearts with His peace.<\/p>\n<p>[update: my wife men\u00adtioned that it looked as though I actu\u00adal\u00adly sus\u00adpect ter\u00adror\u00adist activ\u00adi\u00adty. Not so! I\u2019m report\u00ading the first two thoughts that flashed through my mind, not giv\u00ading my cur\u00adrent opin\u00adion. For the record, I think it\u2019s improb\u00ada\u00adble that ter\u00adror\u00adist activ\u00adi\u00adty caused the Space Shut\u00adtle to dis\u00adin\u00adte\u00adgrate.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brief reflec\u00adtions on the space shut\u00adtle explo\u00adsion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-2i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}