{"id":8201,"date":"2010-08-08T00:08:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T00:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/08\/crookedindifference-president-john-f-kennedy\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:26:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:26:52","slug":"crookedindifference-president-john-f-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/08\/crookedindifference-president-john-f-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8201 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:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/08\/crookedindifference-president-john-f-kennedy\/attachment\/8202\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tumblr_l6bvxf4JBw1qzy0ygo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tumblr_l6bvxf4JBw1qzy0ygo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tumblr_l6bvxf4JBw1qzy0ygo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crookedindifference.com\/post\/918074569\/president-john-f-kennedy-delivers-a-speech-at\" target=\"_blank\">crookedindifference<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>President John F. Kennedy delivers a speech at Rice University on the subject of the American space  program, September 12, 1962.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things,  not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal  will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills,  because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are  unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others,  too\u2026 Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was  to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He  said, \u201cBecause it is there.\u201d Well, space is there, and we\u2019re going to  climb it, and the Moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for  knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask  God\u2019s blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest  adventure on which man has ever embarked.<\/em> \u2014John F. Kennedy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>crookedindifference: President John F. Kennedy delivers a speech at Rice University on the subject of the American space program, September 12, 1962. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/08\/crookedindifference-president-john-f-kennedy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8203,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions\/8203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}