{"id":556,"date":"2019-05-18T14:39:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T14:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2019-05-18T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T14:39:06","slug":"apollo-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/apollo-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollo Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/apollo-souvenirs-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Apollo 11 souvenirs\" class=\"wp-image-558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/apollo-souvenirs-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/apollo-souvenirs-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/apollo-souvenirs-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>This time 50 years ago I was getting very excited about the forthcoming Moon landing. As I mentioned in<a href=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/space-age-nostalgia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a previous post<\/a>, my serious interest in space travel started with the Apollo 8 mission, which took place soon after my 11th birthday. So with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing fast approaching (I\u2019m posting this 50 years to the day after the launch of the previous mission, Apollo 10), I thought it would be fun to look back through some of the souvenirs I collected at the time.<\/p>\n<p>This is my first attempt at a video of this type, and I know it isn\u2019t very professional-looking \u2013 but here it is anyway:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My Apollo 11 souvenirs\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9j92EFXfcwY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time 50 years ago I was getting very excited about the forthcoming Moon landing. As I mentioned in a previous post, my serious interest in space travel started with the Apollo 8 mission, which took place soon after my 11th birthday. So with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing fast approaching (I\u2019m &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/apollo-nostalgia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apollo Nostalgia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,27,23,54],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-moon","tag-nostalgia","tag-space-travel","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}