{"id":2148,"date":"2004-01-18T13:02:49","date_gmt":"2004-01-19T05:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/18\/mars-vs-marriage\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:15:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:15:21","slug":"mars-vs-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/18\/mars-vs-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars vs. Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12080,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.whitehouse.gov\\\/news\\\/releases\\\/2004\\\/01\\\/20040114-3.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090118075557\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.whitehouse.gov\\\/news\\\/releases\\\/2004\\\/01\\\/20040114-3.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 21:00:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 17:43:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 17:43:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12081,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2004\\\/01\\\/14\\\/politics\\\/campaigns\\\/14MARR.html?ex=1389416400&amp;en=7ec04cfff1b1ca80&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Money allocated by President Bush to increase NASA&#8217;s budget in order to encourage space exploration, a replacement for the Space Shuttle, finishing the International Space Station, establishing a manned base on the Moon, and planning for manned trips to Mars:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/01\/20040114-3.html\" title=\"President Bush Announces New Vision for Space Exploration Program\">One billion dollars spread over the next five years.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Money allocated by President Bush in a planned drive to &#8220;promote traditional marriage values&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/01\/14\/politics\/campaigns\/14MARR.html?ex=1389416400&amp;en=7ec04cfff1b1ca80&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND\" title=\"Bush Plans $1.5 Billion Drive for Promotion of Marriage\">One and a half billion dollars, apparently over a single year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess we&#8217;ve all got to have our priorities, don&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p>As a long-time science fiction geek, I&#8217;d <em>really<\/em> like to get excited about the new emphasis on space exploration and research, and even a little more budgetary increase is better than none. Somehow, though, it comes across to me as nothing more than election-year grandstanding than something that&#8217;s really going to have much impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a long-time science fiction geek, I&#8217;d really like to get excited about the new emphasis on space exploration and research, and even a little more budgetary increase is better than none. Somehow, though, it comes across to me as nothing more than election-year grandstanding than something that&#8217;s really going to have much impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[557,14,103,514],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-george-w-bush","tag-politics","tag-religion","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}