{"id":17103,"date":"2009-08-13T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/08\/13\/landing-the-space-shuttle-is-hard-enough-as-it-is\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T10:00:01","slug":"landing-the-space-shuttle-is-hard-enough-as-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090813-01\/?p=17103","title":{"rendered":"Landing the Space Shuttle is hard enough as it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofflight.org\/\">The Museum of Flight<\/a> and was waiting my turn  at the Space Shuttle landing simulator. A six-year-old settled into the control seat, and as the simulation began I heard him ask his father, &#8220;Where are the bad guys?&#8221;\n I&#8217;m pretty sure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=space+shuttle+door+gunner\"> the Space Shuttle doesn&#8217;t come with onboard missiles<\/a>.\n That didn&#8217;t stop the kid from pressing the trigger on the joystick a lot, though.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, I cratered the Space Shuttle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at The Museum of Flight and was waiting my turn at the Space Shuttle landing simulator. A six-year-old settled into the control seat, and as the simulation began I heard him ask his father, &#8220;Where are the bad guys?&#8221; I&#8217;m pretty sure the Space Shuttle doesn&#8217;t come with onboard missiles. That didn&#8217;t stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-17103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I was at The Museum of Flight and was waiting my turn at the Space Shuttle landing simulator. A six-year-old settled into the control seat, and as the simulation began I heard him ask his father, &#8220;Where are the bad guys?&#8221; I&#8217;m pretty sure the Space Shuttle doesn&#8217;t come with onboard missiles. That didn&#8217;t stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}