{"id":2317,"date":"2009-07-19T13:17:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T13:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2009-07-19T13:17:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T13:17:57","slug":"your-own-moon-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/19\/your-own-moon-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"Your own Moon landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/science.ksc.nasa.gov\/history\/apollo\/apollo-11\/apollo-11-patch.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"298\" height=\"290\" \/><br \/>\nI was 3 months old when we first landed men on the Moon (the same age as my youngest daughter).  So while I was &#8220;there&#8221; when Neil took his first step, I can&#8217;t say that I remember much.<br \/>\nWhat I do remeber is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunar_Lander_%28video_game%29\">Lunar Lander<\/a> video game in the coin arcades of my youth (specifically Merlin&#8217;s Castle located at El Paseo de Saratoga in San Jose, California&#8230; now long gone).  I also had a version of the game I used to play on my Apple ][+.  Its a finesse game &#8211; you try to gently set the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) using your thruster with a limited amount of fuel.  I could (and can) play this game for hours. Now you can to!  <a href=\"http:\/\/sebleedelisle.com\/games\/moonlander\/\">Here<\/a> is a great flash version of the original arcade version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was 3 months old when we first landed men on the Moon (the same age as my youngest daughter). So while I was &#8220;there&#8221; when Neil took his first step, I can&#8217;t say that I remember much. What I do remeber is the Lunar Lander video game in the coin arcades of my youth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/19\/your-own-moon-landing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your own Moon 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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-Bn","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}