{"id":60084,"date":"2015-05-29T15:43:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T19:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60084"},"modified":"2015-05-29T15:58:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T19:58:52","slug":"why-not-who-cares-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60084","title":{"rendered":"Why Not? Who Cares Anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two question marks in the title. Yeah, that is to communicate my confusion in this matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/2106132\/nasa-replaces-american-flag-with-a-new-design-international-flag-of-the-planet-earth-to-be-used-during-space-travel\/\">NASA Supports Replacing American Flag With A New Design, International Flag Of The Planet Earth May Be Used During Space Travel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Since Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, the iconic visual of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/2091941\/south-carolina-teen-forced-to-remove-american-flag-from-the-back-of-his-truck-outrage-ensues\/\" target=\"_blank\">American flag<\/a> they left behind marked NASA\u2019s success in going where no man had gone before, marking their arrival for future visitors to see. Since then, all space suits worn by Americans have been adorned with the American flag. However, NASA has been supporting a design that may replace the American flag during space travel. The new flag, called the International Flag of the Planet Earth, is expected to represent Earth as a whole, rather than segment only the United States.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NB: I can&#8217;t vouch for the source and the story is a bit over a week old, but it gave me a painful twinge or two while considering the idea.<\/p>\n<p>I can see it for projects like the ISS and\/or international efforts at grander things, but it made me ask if NASA is so\u00a0 pass\u00e9 that THIS is what they spend time considering?<br \/>\nI felt so proud during the first Space Shuttle launch&#8230; I was once again part of something AMERICAN. Some folks with me had been there during the moon landings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two question marks in the title. Yeah, that is to communicate my confusion in this matter. &hellip; <a title=\"Why Not? Who Cares Anymore?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60084\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Not? Who Cares Anymore?<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60084","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=60084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}