{"id":1265,"date":"2003-06-05T16:10:24","date_gmt":"2003-06-06T06:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/05\/justifying-the-space-program\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:51:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:51:57","slug":"justifying-the-space-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/05\/justifying-the-space-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Justifying the space program"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  It costs NASA less to send a probe to Mars than it would cost Hollywood to make a movie about it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; CBC science commentator Bob MacDonald, when asked to justify the expense of the space program (via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_06_01_archive.html#200391963\" title=\"Space program quote\">Cory Doctorow<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It costs NASA less to send a probe to Mars than it would cost Hollywood to make a movie about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2038],"tags":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}