“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
\nAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
\nSunward I\u2019ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
\nof sun-split clouds, \u2014 and done a hundred things
\nYou have not dreamed of \u2014 wheeled and soared and swung
\nHigh in the sunlit silence. Hov\u2019ring there,
\nI\u2019ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
\nMy eager craft through footless halls of air….<\/p>\n
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
\nI\u2019ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
\nWhere never lark, or even eagle flew \u2014
\nAnd, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
\nThe high untrespassed sanctity of space,
\n\u2013 Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.”<\/p>\n
John Gillespie Magee, Jr. – High Flight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I\u2019ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, \u2014 and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of \u2014 wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov\u2019ring there, I\u2019ve chased the shouting … Continue reading “God Speed, John Glenn. RIP.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[192,454,333],"class_list":["post-3807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-history","tag-news","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3808,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions\/3808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}