{"id":15662,"date":"2010-04-23T03:02:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T03:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/this-is-how-urban-news-myths-start-2\/"},"modified":"2010-04-23T03:02:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T03:02:49","slug":"this-is-how-urban-news-myths-start-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/this-is-how-urban-news-myths-start-2.php","title":{"rendered":"This is How Urban News Myths Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9c6bd_Splashdown.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceref.com\/news\/viewpr.html?pid=26657\">Obama Touts Connection to Space Program in New National Ad<\/a> (2008)<\/p><p><i>\"BO: One of my earliest memories going with my grandfather to see some of the astronauts brought back after a splashdown, sitting on his shoulders waving a little American flag. And my grandfather would say you know boy American's we can do anything that we put our minds to.\"<\/i><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB10001424052702304159304575184362846131730-lMyQjAxMTAwMDEwNDExNDQyWj.html\">Feud Over NASA Threatens America's Edge in Space<\/a>, Wall Street Journal (2010)<\/p><p><i>\"Mr. Obama, who often recounts watching NASA launches as a youngster perched on his grandfather's shoulders, says he hopes to lead the agency through a historic shift.\"<\/i><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9c6bd_arrow.gif\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"> <b>Keith's note:<\/b> This is how urban news myths start. A single landing in Hawaii becomes multiple launches (presumably) in Florida. I first posted this a week ago. The WS Journal has not corrected their website. Nor has the author (Andy Pasztor - I sent him an email)  apparently paid any attention to my citation of his overt error.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Touts Connection to Space Program in New National Ad (2008)\"BO: One of my earliest memories going with my grandfather to see some of the astronauts brought back after a splashdown, sitting on his shoulders waving a little American flag. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/this-is-how-urban-news-myths-start-2.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}