{"id":2700,"date":"2016-05-24T17:52:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T21:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2016-05-24T17:52:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T21:52:33","slug":"side-trip-to-kennedy-space-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/?p=2700","title":{"rendered":"Side trip to Kennedy Space Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2701\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herons-flight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-90.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herons-flight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-90.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herons-flight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-90.jpeg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herons-flight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-98.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herons-flight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-98.jpeg?w=1220&amp;ssl=1 1220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herons-flight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-98.jpeg?w=1830&amp;ssl=1 1830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2710\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herons-flight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-99.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herons-flight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-99.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herons-flight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-99.jpeg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herons-flight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-99.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herons-flight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-99.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herons-flight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-99.jpeg?w=1220&amp;ssl=1 1220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herons-flight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-99.jpeg?w=1830&amp;ssl=1 1830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThursday May 19, 2016<br \/>\nWe woke up Thursday morning to a thunderstorm, rain pouring in the hatch over our heads. They were calling for thunderstorms all afternoon. I had had it with storms. We had not returned our rental car, so I hatched a plan! We would visit Kennedy Space Center. We had never been there, and the two plus hour trip each way was worth it! I loved the Space shuttle exhibit, and it was thrilling to see Atlantis, up close and personal. We did not have time for any of the IMAX shows, but we take the bus tour. Great!<br \/>\nWe drove south to the Cocoa Beach pier to meet Connie and her two kids. Connie and I worked together 10 years ago. Wonderful dinner out on the pier.<br \/>\nNo thunderstorms all afternoon, but we did have a great day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday May 19, 2016 We woke up Thursday morning to a thunderstorm, rain pouring in the hatch over our heads. They were calling for thunderstorms all afternoon. I had had it with storms. We had not returned our rental car, so I hatched a plan! We would visit Kennedy Space Center. We had never been &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","explorer-thumbnail-icon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5p6Ax-Hy","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions\/2716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}