{"id":330,"date":"2011-10-19T23:47:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2011-10-26T22:11:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T02:11:48","slug":"wallpaper-wednesday-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_331\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/wallpaper\/first-canaveral-launch.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-331\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-331 \" title=\"first-canaveral-launch-july-1950-first-rocket-xl\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/first-canaveral-launch-july-1950-first-rocket-xl-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"first-canaveral-launch-july-1950-first-rocket-xl\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/first-canaveral-launch-july-1950-first-rocket-xl-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/first-canaveral-launch-july-1950-first-rocket-xl-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/first-canaveral-launch-july-1950-first-rocket-xl.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Canaveral Rocket Launch, July 1950. Photo courtesy NASA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I selected today&#8217;s wallpaper in anticipation of my November trip to Kennedy Space Center. The photo shows a groups of journalists watching the first rocket launch at Cape Canaveral 0n July 24, 1950 at 9:28 a.m. EDT. Although the National Geographic site identifies this as the Bumper 2 rocket, it&#8217;s actually the Bumper 8, launched as part of a project to design the United States&#8217; long-range missile capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I selected today&#8217;s wallpaper in anticipation of my November trip to Kennedy Space Center. The photo shows a groups of journalists watching the first rocket launch at Cape Canaveral 0n July 24, 1950 at 9:28 a.m. EDT. Although the National Geographic site identifies this as the Bumper 2 rocket, it&#8217;s actually the Bumper 8, launched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wallpaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}