{"id":23086,"date":"2012-08-26T19:50:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T19:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/richardrushfield-there-have-been-two-great\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:45:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T04:45:34","slug":"richardrushfield-there-have-been-two-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/richardrushfield-there-have-been-two-great\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-23086 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/richardrushfield-there-have-been-two-great\/attachment\/23087\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m9cpbvinrn1qzkem4o1_540-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/rushfieldbabylon.com\/post\/30229378585\/there-have-been-two-great-epic-scale-adventures-of\">richardrushfield<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There have been two great epic-scale adventures of the post War era: \u00a0The fall of the Soviet empire and the Apollo program. \u00a0Neither of them has gotten a great movie yet.<\/p>\n<p>The Apollo program was the only truly uncharted adventure of our time. Where anything at all could have happened. Since then all we\u2019ve had is manufactured thrills. \u00a0And fought each other.<\/p>\n<p>For those of us who weren\u2019t born in 1969, today was the one day in your life that will always be in the history books. \u00a0Armstrong was, one must say, the most famous person on the planet. \u00a01000 years from now Barak Obama and Mitt Romney, Brad Pitt, the Kardashians, Breaking Bad and Boardwalk Empire, Beyonce and Britney and every single person with a Twitter account no matter how many followers will have been forgotten, but still every school child will know Neil Armstrong\u2019s name along with Columbus, Galileo and one or two others. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And he maintained it without Tweeting, blogging, podcasting, starting a fragrance line or starring in a reality show. \u00a0He did a handful of interviews over the 40 years since Apollo, and that is it. \u00a0No building his brand or thinking of other ways he could exploit his accomplishment. \u00a0He did something absolutely unimaginable, at total risk before the eyes of the world, broke through our sense of the limitations of mankind, then he\u00a0went to Ohio and taught math. What he did was left to stand on its own, without layer upon layer of grossness piled on top of it.<\/p>\n<p>Someday, we may see another of his kind. \u00a0But we\u2019re not probably not anytime soon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>richardrushfield: There have been two great epic-scale adventures of the post War era: \u00a0The fall of the Soviet empire and the Apollo program. \u00a0Neither of them has gotten a great movie yet. The Apollo program was the only truly uncharted adventure of our time. Where anything at all could have happened. Since then all we\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-60m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23088,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23086\/revisions\/23088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}