{"id":906,"date":"2008-02-21T05:47:18","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T11:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=906"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:56","slug":"nice-shot-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"Nice Shot, Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"302\" height=\"360\" align=\"top\" title=\"space-invaders_qjpreviewth.jpg\" id=\"image905\" alt=\"space-invaders_qjpreviewth.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/space-invaders_qjpreviewth.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whether you agree with it or not, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2008-02-19-satellite_N.htm\">you have to admit it was a nice shot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who briefly held the high score on the Space Invaders machine at University Mall in Blacksburg, Virginia in early 1985, my hat&#8217;s off to you, Navy. Somewhere, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wernher_von_Braun\">Wernher von Braun<\/a> is smiling. And I suspect, so are many of my top-secret rocket scientist friends in Huntsville.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you guys could <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncb\/recap?gameId=280512390\">help Duke find the basket too<\/a>. Or at least a little earlier in the game anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you agree with it or not, you have to admit it was a nice shot. As someone who briefly held the high score on the Space Invaders machine at University Mall in Blacksburg, Virginia in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,23,30,20,31,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-current-events","category-duke-basketball","category-huntsville","category-military","category-nostalgia","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9462,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/9462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}