{"id":5405,"date":"2012-08-25T15:19:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=5405"},"modified":"2012-08-25T15:19:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:19:39","slug":"rip-neil-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2012\/08\/rip-neil-armstrong.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP Neil Armstrong"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2012\/08\/Neil-Armstrong-by-Anita-Ganeri-2008gea.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2012\/08\/Neil-Armstrong-by-Anita-Ganeri-2008gea.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Neil-Armstrong-by-Anita-Ganeri-2008gea\" width=\"367\" height=\"475\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5406\"><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Armstrong\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Neil Armstrong<\/a>, as Wikipedia describes him, an \u201cAmerican NASA astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon,\u201d died today at the age of eighty-two.<\/p>\n<p>What a life\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Good night, Rocket man\u2026<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1GAKOLOnfV4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Armstrong, as Wikipedia describes him, an \u201cAmerican NASA astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon,\u201d died today at the age of eighty-two. 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