{"id":1321,"date":"2009-12-30T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2009-12-30T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:24:23","slug":"christmas-gift-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Gift From Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m not talking about Will Smith.  I finally got into the office today and found a present from one of our security guards.  Turpin( I love to call him officer Drebben) is this, obviously, crazy older gentleman with a sense of humor as dry as the Sahara&#8230;heh.  So I opened the xmas card and it said something about having to go to space to get the present.  I unwrapped it and it is a copy of Buzz Aldrin&#8217;s book <em>Magnificent Desolation<\/em>.  I then flipped open to the first page and guess what was there&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05492.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05492.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC05492\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05492.jpg 360w, https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05492-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1323\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1323\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05493.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05493.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC05493\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05493.jpg 360w, https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC05493-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A signed copy!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Turpin is also an air traffic controller, so he is a flight\/space nut.  It&#8217;s beyond me what convinced him to give me something this cool&#8230;I did fix a slot machine for him&#8230;hehe, but that was 5 minutes worth of work. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>A little about Buzz from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buzz_Aldrin\">wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Buzz has a pretty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZOo6aHSY8hU\">good right hook too<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m not talking about Will Smith. I finally got into the office today and found a present from one of our security guards.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}