{"id":184750,"date":"2012-01-29T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/29\/and-he-will-name-it-gingrich-base\/"},"modified":"2012-01-29T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T23:46:00","slug":"and-he-will-name-it-gingrich-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/29\/and-he-will-name-it-gingrich-base\/","title":{"rendered":"And He Will Name it Gingrich Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/burns-haberman\/2012\/01\/newt-pledges-moon-base-by-second-term-112319.html\">promising a permanent moon base in the next 8 years<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Who but Newt could be so full of themselves that they would dare to make it a campaign pitch.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I&#8217;m beginning to think that being a science fiction fan might be a disqualifier for holding executive office.<\/p>\n<p>Newt claims influence from Asimov&#8217;s <i>Foundation<\/i> series, while Romney says that <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/30\/romney-favors-hubbard-novel\/\">his favorite bit of sci-fi is <i>Battlefield Earth<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least Newt has better taste in literature.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\" height=\"412\" width=\"486\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=1416005096001&#038;playerID=1409164951001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAETmrZQ~,EVFEM4AKJdRjek0MS21pRzf_GTDAM-xj&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=1416005096001&#038;playerID=1409164951001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAETmrZQ~,EVFEM4AKJdRjek0MS21pRzf_GTDAM-xj&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, promising a permanent moon base in the next 8 years? Who but Newt could be so full of themselves that they would dare to make it a campaign pitch. You know, I&#8217;m beginning to think that being a science fiction fan might be a disqualifier for holding executive office. Newt claims influence from Asimov&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175,1036,977,1037,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-nasa","category-presidential-campaign","category-space","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184750"}],"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=184750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}