{"id":203,"date":"2005-11-07T18:02:02","date_gmt":"2005-11-08T02:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2008-06-22T10:54:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T17:54:12","slug":"if-you-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"If You Believe&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret and I were watching an interview with astronaut, college professor and all-around good egg Neil Armstrong on 60 Minutes last night (transcript can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2005\/11\/03\/60minutes\/main1008288.shtml\">here<\/a>), when Ed Bradley asked him, \u201cIn the midst all your professional achievements, you&#8217;ve managed to get married, to have a family. Was it a difficult balance for you to maintain both sides of your life?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong pondered this for a second. \u201cThe one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel, and I didn&#8217;t get to spend the time I would have liked with my family as they were growing up.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>At this point Margaret piped up, &#8220;&#8216;A lot of travel&#8217;. Boy, <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> an understatement!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I did <em>not<\/em> hit her with a sofa cushion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret and I were watching an interview with astronaut, college professor and all-around good egg Neil Armstrong on 60 Minutes last night (transcript can be found here), when Ed Bradley asked him, \u201cIn the midst all your professional achievements, you&#8217;ve managed to get married, to have a family. Was it a difficult balance for you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}