{"id":809,"date":"2012-11-26T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=809"},"modified":"2012-12-02T20:24:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T01:24:24","slug":"flight-93-national-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"Flight 93 National Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_810\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/uDSC_0304.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-810\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-810 \" title=\"NVAR 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/uDSC_0304-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/uDSC_0304-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/uDSC_0304-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Veterans Awareness Ride, 2012. Flight 93 National Memorial. Photo credit: JR<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A year ago today, I was celebrating one of the milestones of aviation history, the successful launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?cat=25\" target=\"_blank\">Mars Science Laboratory<\/a> (aka Curiosity, the Mars Rover). Today, I mourned one of aviation history&#8217;s greatest tragedies, the deliberate downing of Flight 93 in a field near Lambertsville, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to see how I experienced the site this morning, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/snjr22\/sets\/72157632111032808\/show\/\" target=\"_blank\">watch the slideshow here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago today, I was celebrating one of the milestones of aviation history, the successful launch of the Mars Science Laboratory (aka Curiosity, the Mars Rover). Today, I mourned one of aviation history&#8217;s greatest tragedies, the deliberate downing of Flight 93 in a field near Lambertsville, Pennsylvania. If you&#8217;d like to see how I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planes","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","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=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}