{"id":12,"date":"2012-12-30T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2012\/12\/30\/holiday-free-time\/"},"modified":"2017-04-27T02:02:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T06:02:22","slug":"holiday-free-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2012\/12\/30\/holiday-free-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Machmer: Holiday Free Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HDiJEBc0Lfc\/UN8v6iF69tI\/AAAAAAAAPis\/Pe2pTnlnoW0\/s1600\/cash_for_science.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-xYYu5sbSz0M\/UVUziV8t5SI\/AAAAAAAAWYg\/R3uwdGx_G7k\/s640\/cash_for_science.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 10px !important;\">High Res:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Artist%27s_Concept_of_Curiosity_Rover_Subsidized_by_Advertising.jpg\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Artist%27s_Concept_of_Curiosity_Rover_Subsidized_by_Advertising.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/--2pr-LVNOfo\/UNf8VYL6_yI\/AAAAAAAAPXg\/QmeGg_FRVKc\/s1600\/red_dragon_departing_bigelow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/--2pr-LVNOfo\/UNf8VYL6_yI\/AAAAAAAAPXg\/QmeGg_FRVKc\/s640\/red_dragon_departing_bigelow.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 10px !important;\">High Res:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Advertising_Subsidized_Red_Dragon_(artist%27s_mockup).jpg\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Advertising_Subsidized_Red_Dragon_(artist%27s_mockup).jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/--2pr-LVNOfo\/UNf8VYL6_yI\/AAAAAAAAPXg\/QmeGg_FRVKc\/s1600\/red_dragon_departing_bigelow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-S9snhG5ttcw\/UVUziPWQ4dI\/AAAAAAAAWYY\/vRcp6yCUp9E\/s640\/msl_33pct.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-pdU2hhjO4Ns\/UOUkr5ih9iI\/AAAAAAAAP4s\/Hx4Skd_tRr8\/s1600\/chinese_carl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-pdU2hhjO4Ns\/UOUkr5ih9iI\/AAAAAAAAP4s\/Hx4Skd_tRr8\/s1600\/chinese_carl.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The center image of Sagan is a misguided photoshopped alteration of the original photo of him holding Voyager&#8217;s plaque. If we do not accept advertising funded space exploration two things will happen: America will owe China more money and the Bank of China will advertise on Chinese spacecraft. I welcome the later but the former in an absence of advertising subsidies is inexcusable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Res:\u00a0https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Artist%27s_Concept_of_Curiosity_Rover_Subsidized_by_Advertising.jpg High Res:\u00a0https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Advertising_Subsidized_Red_Dragon_(artist%27s_mockup).jpg The center image of Sagan is a misguided photoshopped alteration of the original photo of him holding Voyager&#8217;s plaque. If we do not accept advertising funded space exploration two things will happen: America will owe China more money and the Bank of China will advertise on Chinese spacecraft. I welcome the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-machmer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}