{"id":4788,"date":"2019-07-20T10:10:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T14:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2019-07-20T10:10:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T14:10:17","slug":"the-eagle-has-landed-expanded-brain-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/20\/the-eagle-has-landed-expanded-brain-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eagle Has Landed &#8211; Expanded Brain Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Angry Old Fat Man here, boys and girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America landed on the moon on my third birthday. That's right, I was born exactly three years before mankind took their first steps on a different celestial body, our moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unbelievably, there are fools out there who not only don't believe we did this, but also believe we faked the footage live and they advertise this misinformation to influence the young and the extremely gullible:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interstellar Official Movie Clip #1 - Useless Machines (2014) - Matthew McConaughey Movie HD\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KnlrK14OZn0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank God we have people who are not only knowledgeable, but have a sense of humor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are numerous Internet memes that have an \"expanding brain\" sequence, which shows a brain and\/or spirit expanding from a Homer Simpson sized nugget up to a galactic sized ethereal enlightened soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found one the other day that addressed the moon landing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"491\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/moonlanding01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/moonlanding01.jpg 491w, https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/moonlanding01-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy! The Eagle has landed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angry Old Fat Man here, boys and girls. America landed on the moon on my third birthday. That's right, I was born exactly three years before mankind took their first steps on a different celestial body, our moon. Unbelievably, there are fools out there who not only don't believe we did this, but also believe <a href=\"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/20\/the-eagle-has-landed-expanded-brain-edition\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"The Eagle Has Landed &#8211; Expanded Brain Edition\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,6,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4790,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions\/4790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}