{"id":1401,"date":"2012-08-08T17:54:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T01:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k7nvh.com\/wordpress\/?p=197"},"modified":"2012-08-08T17:54:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T01:54:32","slug":"curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curiosity has been all over the news and whatnot lately. To be honest though, I don&#8217;t think it can be said enough. NASA has repeatedly delivered beyond imagination. They deserve every cent of their budget and 1,000,000% more.<\/p>\n<p>As an American, I have to say there is little around that makes me more patriotic than our space program. We&#8217;ve visited every planet (new definition) in the solar system, had a surprising number of extremely successful robotic missions, and are the only nation to have EVER put a person, let alone\u00a0<strong>TWELVE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The engineering feat of lowering a car sized nuclear powered rover onto another planet from a rocket propelled sky crane is just incredible. Incredible.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to as many years of amazing photos and discoveries as we&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to have with Spirit and Opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/674898main_pia16013-full_full.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-198\" title=\"674898main_pia16013-full_full\" src=\"http:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/674898main_pia16013-full_full-1024x567.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curiosity has been all over the news and whatnot lately. To be honest though, I don&#8217;t think it can be said enough. NASA has repeatedly delivered beyond imagination. They deserve every cent of their budget and 1,000,000% more. As an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=1401\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}