{"id":829,"date":"2009-06-24T22:53:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T06:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=829"},"modified":"2009-06-30T22:51:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T06:51:07","slug":"a-passion-for-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"A Passion for Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0810972743\/craiglog\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41EVgQVOyDL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A Passion for Mars\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>My son Brian sent a copy of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0810972743\/craiglog\">A Passion for Mars<\/a>&#8221; by Andrew Chaikin  as a Father&#8217;s Day gift. It covers everything from the early Mariner missions to Spirit and Opportunity and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoy Chaikin&#8217;s writing, and especially liked &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/014311235X\/craiglog\">A Man on the Moon<\/a>&#8220;, his earlier book on the Apollo program that served as the basis for the HBO series &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000A0GYD2\/craiglog\">From the Earth to the Moon<\/a>&#8221; produced by Tom Hanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son Brian sent a copy of &#8220;A Passion for Mars&#8221; by Andrew Chaikin as a Father&#8217;s Day gift. It covers everything from the early Mariner missions to Spirit and Opportunity and beyond. I really enjoy Chaikin&#8217;s writing, and especially liked &#8220;A Man on the Moon&#8220;, his earlier book on the Apollo program that served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-mars","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}