{"id":5955,"date":"2010-07-22T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2010-07-22T05:00:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T09:00:48","slug":"one-small-step-for-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2010\/07\/one-small-step-for-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"One small step for a man"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>July 20 was the 41st anniversary of a human being landing on the moon. \u00a0The tiny spacecraft was guided by computers with far less capability than the one you are using to read this blog. \u00a0\u201cOne small step for a man,\u201d said Neil Armstrong, \u201cone giant leap for mankind.\u201d \u00a0 Was it really? \u00a0Watch the video of that dramatic 1969 telecast. \u00a0(If it isn\u2019t appearing in your browser, click \u201ccomments.\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 20 was the 41st anniversary of a human being landing on the moon. \u00a0The tiny spacecraft was guided by computers with far less capability than the one you are using to read this blog. \u00a0\u201cOne small step for a man,\u201d said Neil Armstrong, \u201cone giant leap for mankind.\u201d \u00a0 Was it really? \u00a0Watch the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,40,45],"tags":[1485],"class_list":["post-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-science","category-television","tag-moon-landing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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