{"id":701,"date":"2013-01-01T20:37:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T01:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=701"},"modified":"2013-01-01T20:39:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T01:39:17","slug":"wheres-my-silver-jumpsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s My Silver Jumpsuit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-702 alignleft\" alt=\"rocket_jumpsuit\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rocket_jumpsuit.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"274\" \/>Yes, I know the typical complaint in twenty-first century year kick-off posts, is more along the lines of &#8220;where&#8217;s my flying car?&#8221;, but I&#8217;m a maverick, you know, and the silver jumpsuit thing is more along the lines of what got me thinking of this whole thing: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/guest-blogs\/jason-davis\/spacexs-grasshopper-makes.html\">latest test of the Space-X Grasshopper rocket<\/a>.\u00a0 It seems like just yesterday we were all chuckling indulgently about pulp sci-fi depictions of space travel, with gleaming silver rockets taking off and landing hither and yon.\u00a0 Star Wars and the space shuttle made it obvious that spacecraft would look more like aircraft, except maybe grubbier and more beat up.\u00a0 Rockets were single-use things, just the first primitive step.<\/p>\n<p>But now we&#8217;re back to reusable rockets, apparently.\u00a0 So obviously, I think we can all be expecting to wear shiny jumpsuits soon.\u00a0 Which means I&#8217;d better make a resolution to hit the gym.\u00a0 Which ties this back to being a New Year&#8217;s day post quite nicely, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know the typical complaint in twenty-first century year kick-off posts, is more along the lines of &#8220;where&#8217;s my flying car?&#8221;, but I&#8217;m a maverick, you know, and the silver jumpsuit thing is more along the lines of what got me thinking of this whole thing: the latest test of the Space-X Grasshopper rocket.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}