{"id":560,"date":"2008-05-25T23:04:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T03:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2009-02-25T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T23:01:35","slug":"phoenix-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we heard on the news a couple of days ago that a Mars mission was scheduled to land today, we said, &#8220;Matt is going to know all about that.&#8221; He&#8217;s interested in space exploration. Sure enough, he had the NASA site on his computer, and I watched the video feed over his shoulder as the lander got closer, the people in mission control were saying &#8220;1800 meters .. 1600 meters .. &#8221; and on down. It&#8217;s pretty amazing to be in the Maine woods and watch people in Houston or Pasadena, wherever it was, watching a spacecraft so far away that it takes fifteen minutes for the radio signals to get here.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--00d42c32f9d5babe436315bc2d23bd91-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--d51d41ce981374f73278713394dca55b--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we heard on the news a couple of days ago that a Mars mission was scheduled to land today, we said, &#8220;Matt is going to know all about that.&#8221; He&#8217;s interested in space exploration. Sure enough, he had the NASA site on his computer, and I watched the video feed over his shoulder as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=560\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Phoenix landing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}