{"id":3179,"date":"2012-03-08T18:43:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T00:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2012-03-08T18:44:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T00:44:42","slug":"welcome-to-the-nabisco-oreos-moonbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3179","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To The Nabisco Oreos Moonbase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how much money NASA received for this video of an astronaut shilling the next <em>Angry Birds<\/em> game, but I doubt it&#8217;s enough to fund a mission to Mars.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lxI1L1RiSJQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I get that public-private partnerships have become de rigeur for all levels of government, but this still makes me a little sad. NASA should be promoting science and exploration, not trying to sell me a videogame. It makes me wonder if the age of truly public works&#8211;whether it&#8217;s going to the Moon or building a dam&#8211;is gone forever. Nowadays, it seems like government can&#8217;t do anything on a big scale without selling the naming rights or providing product placement. It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me at all if the spacecraft that eventually brings humans to Mars is emblazoned with a huge Apple logo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how much money NASA received for this video of an astronaut shilling the next Angry Birds game, but I doubt it&#8217;s enough to fund a mission to Mars. I get that public-private partnerships have become de rigeur for all levels of government, but this still makes me a little sad. NASA should <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3179' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-wonkery","category-10-id","category-15-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Ph","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}