{"id":9581,"date":"2017-01-16T21:44:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T21:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9581"},"modified":"2017-01-16T21:53:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T21:53:39","slug":"gene-cernan-rip-speaking-to-the-last-man-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/gene-cernan-rip-speaking-to-the-last-man-on-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Cernan RIP: Speaking To The Last Man On The Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"[audio:http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/sxswbaby_20150319_19_LastManOnTheMoon\/sxswbaby_20150319_19_LastManOnTheMoon.mp3]\n

Gene Cernan died today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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He was the last man to walk on the moon, an astronaut from a time of heroes, a pilot from a time where best friends didn’t come home. He also drew his daughter’s initials in the moon dust. They’re still there… <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I was very lucky to speak to him in 2014 as he promoted Mark Craig’s documentary\/biography ‘Last Man On The Moon.’?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I’ve posted it above, and I’m going to listen to it again.<\/p>\n

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,<\/em>
\nAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;<\/em>
\nSunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth<\/em>
\nOf sun-split clouds, –and done a hundred things<\/em>
\nYou have not dreamed of –Wheeled and soared and swung<\/em>
\nHigh in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there<\/em>
\nI’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung<\/em>
\nMy eager craft through footless halls of air…<\/em>
\nUp, up the long, delirious, burning blue<\/em>
\nI’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace<\/em>
\nWhere never lark or even eagle flew —<\/em>
\nAnd, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod<\/em>
\nThe high untrespassed sanctity of space,<\/em>
\nPut out my hand, and touched the face of God.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[audio:http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/sxswbaby_20150319_19_LastManOnTheMoon\/sxswbaby_20150319_19_LastManOnTheMoon.mp3] Gene Cernan died today. He was the last man to walk on the moon, an astronaut from a time of heroes, a pilot from a time where best friends didn’t come home. He also drew his daughter’s initials in the moon dust. They’re still there… ? I was very lucky to speak to him in 2014 as he promoted Mark Craig’s documentary\/biography ‘Last Man On The Moon.’? I’ve posted it above, and I’m going to listen to it again. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Gene Cernan: Speaking To The Last Man On The Moon","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[26,3,18],"tags":[5779,267,5780,5156,86],"class_list":["post-9581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multimedia","category-personal-thoughts-and-messages","category-podcasting","tag-gene-cernan","tag-interview","tag-last-man-on-the-moon","tag-nasa","tag-sxsw","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2ux","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9581"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9588,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions\/9588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}