{"id":564,"date":"2009-07-20T14:38:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T22:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=564"},"modified":"2009-07-20T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T23:24:25","slug":"prisoners-of-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Prisoners of Gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rick Green said it best, during an episode of the eponymous and innovative <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prisoners_of_Gravity\">Canadian spec-fic documentary series<\/a>.\u00a0 And on this 40th anniversary, this celebration of the voyage of an ancient diving bell \u2014 amidst all the back-patting and self-congratulations (especially the CBC&#8217;s desperate <em>Me Too!<\/em> efforts to convince this nation of low-self-esteem self-professed underachievers that Yes, it was really us <em>Canadians<\/em> at the heart of the Apollo Program) \u2014 I am sad to observe that the question Green asked almost twenty years ago is even more relevant today:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;If they can put a man on the moon, why can&#8217;t they put a man on the moon any more?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Green said it best, during an episode of the eponymous and innovative Canadian spec-fic documentary series.\u00a0 And on this 40th anniversary, this celebration of the voyage of an ancient diving bell \u2014 amidst all the back-patting and self-congratulations (especially the CBC&#8217;s desperate Me Too! efforts to convince this nation of low-self-esteem self-professed underachievers that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}