{"id":11146,"date":"2012-05-14T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=11146"},"modified":"2012-05-13T22:59:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T03:59:24","slug":"nasa-lets-give-it-another-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/culture\/science-the-world\/nasa-lets-give-it-another-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA, Let’s Give It Another Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sorry I dumped you<\/a> for a Virgin<\/a>. They seemed so exciting at the time, but now I know the truth. I need a more experienced partner. Since we broke up, I’ve done a lot of thinking. I realize now that I focused on all the negative things, and I ignored all the positive contributions<\/a> you brought to our relationships.<\/p>\n

Remember memory foam<\/a>? Or how I used to scratch my glasses all the time before you came along and fixed them<\/a>?\u00a0Well, I still sleep on our pillow together and I still use the water filter<\/a> you graciously left behind.<\/p>\n

And after we split, when I sat on my couch alone and bitterly laughed at the thought of you running out of ideas, you literally reinvented the rocket engine<\/a>, which in turn, reinvented the firefighter hose<\/a>. I realized then that I was a fool.<\/p>\n

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Golly, that new rocket engine is neat!<\/p><\/div>\n

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I got too comfortable in our relationship (like those shoes you made me<\/a>) and I lost sight of the big picture. By investing time and money in you, NASA, I know you’ll always pay me back a hundred-fold.<\/p>\n

And to think that I complained about you being too high-maintenance! You don’t even cost one percent of my annual budget<\/a>. More than five times less<\/a> than I spend on cigarettes, and look at all you’ve given me<\/a>!<\/p>\n

What a fool I’ve been. NASA, will you take me back?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sorry I dumped you for a Virgin. They seemed so exciting at the time, but now I know the truth. I need a more experienced partner. Since we broke up, I’ve done a lot of thinking. I realize now that I focused on all the negative things, and I ignored all the positive contributions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[907,908,906],"tags":[2758,2757,1886,2756,2755,428,1996,431,1505],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11173,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146\/revisions\/11173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}