{"id":551,"date":"2012-08-02T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/08\/02\/leslie-fish-surprise-beep-beep-beep-hello-there\/"},"modified":"2013-06-30T19:49:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T19:49:40","slug":"leslie-fish-surprise-beep-beep-beep-hello-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/08\/02\/leslie-fish-surprise-beep-beep-beep-hello-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Fish, &quot;Surprise!&quot;&#8230;&quot;Beep Beep Beep Hello There!&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o-mZ9pKvCmk\" imageanchor=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-z0409Zv-6-c\/UBfjPsuN7YI\/AAAAAAAADoc\/bIFwGzwu8pw\/s640\/Screen+Shot+2012-07-31+at+9.52.34+AM.png\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Remember the fifties, those fat complacent days<br \/>When the future seemed a century away?<br \/>Then up went Sputnik, gave the world a butt-kick,<br \/>And made it clear tomorrow starts today.<\/p>\n<p>Beep beep, boop boop, hello there!<br \/>Sputnik sails, giggling, through the skies<br \/>Red flags, red faces, jump in the race<br \/>As the space age begins with a surprise<\/p>\n<p>You generals once thought Von Braun a waste of cash,<br \/>And Goddard needed treatment really bad.<br \/>Then that global shotput gave you the hotfoot<br \/>And \u2014 beep beep \u2014 you\u2019re blasted off the pad<\/p>\n<p>Beep beep, boop boop, hello there!<br \/>Sputnik sails, giggling, through the skies<br \/>Red flags, red faces, jump in the race<br \/>As the space age begins with a surprise<\/p>\n<p>Done for a threat, propaganda or prestige \u2014<br \/>The point is, the thing was in the sky<br \/>It made the generals frown and put their money down,<br \/>And meet that bet or know the reason why<\/p>\n<p>Beep beep, boop boop, hello there!<br \/>Sputnik sails, giggling, through the skies<br \/>Red flags, red faces, jump in the race<br \/>As the space age begins with a surprise<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how it started, all those years ago,<br \/>The push that got us climbing into space<br \/>Cynic beginnings, greed for big winnings<br \/>But look at all we\u2019ve gotten from that race!<\/p>\n<p>Beep beep, boop boop, hello there!<br \/>Sputnik sails, giggling, through the skies<br \/>Red flags, red faces, jump in the race<br \/>As the space age begins with a surprise<\/p>\n<p>Sputnik wore out, and spiraled back to Earth;<br \/>On re-entry it burned up very soon<br \/>Hail and goodbye to that upstart in the sky \u2014<br \/>And in twelve more years a man walked on the Moon!<\/p>\n<p>Beep beep, boop boop, hello there!<br \/>Sputnik sails, giggling, through the skies<br \/>Red flags, red faces, jump in the race<br \/>As the space age begins with a surprise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the fifties, those fat complacent daysWhen the future seemed a century away?Then up went Sputnik, gave the world a butt-kick,And made it clear tomorrow starts today. Beep beep, boop boop, hello there!Sputnik sails, giggling, through the skiesRed flags, red faces, jump in the raceAs the space age begins with a surprise You generals once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}