{"id":26298,"date":"2011-08-24T21:44:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T01:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26298"},"modified":"2011-08-24T21:44:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T01:44:52","slug":"oh-heck-this-is-your-tax-dollars-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26298","title":{"rendered":"Oh Heck&#8230; This Is Your Tax Dollars at Work."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I had only seen this earlier:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/blog\/thinking-tech\/us-military-to-help-launch-interstellar-space-travel\/8293\" target=\"_blank\"> U.S. military to help launch interstellar space travel<\/a> it may just be sillier than the Fart story?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/\">Darpa<\/a>, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is looking to award a $500,000 grant to an ambitious organization to figure out just what it would take to transport humans to stars orbiting beyond our galaxy, according to a report in the New York Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You folks will have to live with a different retirement program, etc. But some brainiac is aiming for the stars using DOD funds?<\/p>\n<p>To be absolutely clear. The idea is way more than just intriguing from this seat.\u00a0 Still, who decides when to rob Peter to pay Paul?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had only seen this earlier: U.S. military to help launch interstellar space travel it &hellip; <a title=\"Oh Heck&#8230; This Is Your Tax Dollars at Work.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26298\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh Heck&#8230; This Is Your Tax Dollars at Work.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,26,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-blather","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}