{"id":9,"date":"2007-04-22T07:54:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T14:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:51:00","slug":"earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Earth\" href=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/photos\/earth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Earth\" src=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/photos\/earth_tn.jpg\" alt=\"Earth\" width=\"150\" height=\"139\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the best photo of the Earth from space you&#8217;ll find, but it means something to me. It&#8217;s from a packet that my grandfather gave me when I was a teenager. I believe it is a NASA press release from immediately following the Apollo 11 moon mission of 1969.<\/p>\n<p>So, a shot of Earth on Earth Day. And to quote Wally Schirra, who flew many missions for NASA, including an earlier Apollo 7:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I left Earth three times. I found no place else to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.&#8221;\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t the best photo of the Earth from space you&#8217;ll find, but it means something to me. It&#8217;s from a packet that my grandfather gave me when I was a teenager. I believe it is a NASA press release from immediately following the Apollo 11 moon mission of 1969. So, a shot of Earth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pha1lg-9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11101,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/11101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}