{"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 morning 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 Shuttle blew up<\/a> on re-entry.<\/p>\n<p>I had two thoughts rush through my mind immediately:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1) Wow\u2013I vividly remember the last time this happened. It shocked me deeply\u2013the idea that our science wasn\u2019t perfect and that America could make a mistake and that heroes could&nbsp;die.<\/p>\n<p>2) The first Israeli astronaut was on the shuttle, and it\u2019s such a high-profile American symbol: it sure would be an attractive target to terrorists\u2026 Accidents happen, and I hope that\u2019s all it was. If it was terrorists, it would have to be some sort of sabotage before the shuttle took off (that, or someone on the shuttle would have had to turn traitor\u2013something I consider extremely unlikely).<\/p>\n<p>I have intense sympathy for the families of the astronauts: may God comfort their hearts with His&nbsp;peace.<\/p>\n<p>[update: my wife mentioned that it looked as though I actually suspect terrorist activity. Not so! I\u2019m reporting the first two thoughts that flashed through my mind, not giving my current opinion. For the record, I think it\u2019s improbable that terrorist activity caused the Space Shuttle to disintegrate.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brief reflections on the space shuttle explosion.<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"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}]}}