{"id":326,"date":"2008-10-25T19:16:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T19:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/25\/the-smithsonian\/"},"modified":"2008-10-25T19:16:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T19:16:16","slug":"the-smithsonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"The Smithsonian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a really honor to be there signing books and talking to folks. I still have goosebumps. On the first day they set me up just under Spaceship One and the Spirit of St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>On day two I was at the Smithsonian\u2019s Udvar-Hazy Center, the annex by the airport. There is a risk that it all can go to your head. A eight year old boy came to my rescue. He walked up to the table, looked me in the eye and said, &#8220;That&#8217;ll never work&#8221;, turned around and walked off. I smiled, being firmly put in my place and enjoyed the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p>The next day I did a book signing at NASA HQ. I&#8217;m still so weirded out by everything I can&#8217;t begin to tell you. However, friends there is a bright ray of light there. It came from the folks at the NASA HQ Library. They are the true unsung heroes of that place.  More on that later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a really honor to be there signing books and talking to folks. I still have goosebumps. On the first day they set me up just under Spaceship One and the Spirit of St. Louis. On day two I was at the Smithsonian\u2019s Udvar-Hazy Center, the annex by the airport. There is a risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}