{"id":175962,"date":"2020-10-11T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/11\/today-in-appropriate-priorities\/"},"modified":"2020-10-11T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T23:33:00","slug":"today-in-appropriate-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/11\/today-in-appropriate-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Appropriate Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-color: black; border-image: none; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m taking on a new mission, one that keeps my feet planted here firmly on Earth and prioritizes my most important crew \u2013 my family. I\u2019ll still be working hard with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Starliner?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Starliner<\/a> team and the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASA_Astronauts?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASA_Astronauts<\/a> on our crew. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PgdhPqwYQS\">pic.twitter.com\/PgdhPqwYQS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher Ferguson (@Astro_Ferg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Astro_Ferg\/status\/1313856730908983296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/space\/article\/I-m-taking-on-a-new-mission-Astronaut-chooses-15630984.php\">has bowed out of the first manned flight of the first &#8220;Starliner&#8221; flight because it conflicts with his daughter&#8217;s wedding<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;I wholeheartedly approve:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">It was a defining moment for Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson when he  chose dedication to family over a flight to the International Space  Station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Serving as the commander of Boeing&#8217;s first astronaut-led  flight, Ferguson announced Wednesday that he has pulled himself off the  crew so he can attend his daughter&#8217;s wedding next year. Ferguson posted a  video<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Astro_Ferg\/status\/1313856730908983296?s=20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> on Twitter<\/a> that revealed his decision to stay at home with family.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m taking on a new mission, one that keeps my feet planted here firmly on Earth and prioritizes my most important crew \u2013 my family. I\u2019ll still be working hard with the #Starliner team and the @NASA_Astronauts on our crew. pic.twitter.com\/PgdhPqwYQS \u2014 Christopher Ferguson (@Astro_Ferg) October 7, 2020 Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson has bowed out &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[422,566,504,419],"class_list":["post-175962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-family","tag-family-values","tag-philosophy","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}