{"id":139,"date":"2009-07-21T21:46:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T04:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=139"},"modified":"2009-07-21T21:47:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T04:47:37","slug":"the-day-they-canceled-sunday-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"The Day They Canceled Sunday School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the time my father was stationed at Tripler Army Hospital at the end of our first tour. The hospital was also the location of the Episcopal services. Normally our Sunday was Sunday school followed by church services, we did not have a children\u2019s church.\u00a0 We believe child should be with their parents. But on a summer Sunday July 20<sup>th<\/sup> 1969, there was no Sunday school; instead there was a single TV set and the entire congregation as we watched the approach and landing of the LEM.\u00a0 Now one expect me to reminisce about the wonder of the event, but in truth like most eight year olds I suffer from a short attention span. Still I know this was not an ordinary day, after the landing we might have said a prayer and continued with the service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Later I was with my parents at home, I was almost glued to the tube was we watched Neal Armstrong became the first man to step on the moon. \u00a0Now for an eight year old that was the neatest thing in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Days after\u00a0 splashdown my dad took\u00a0 us to Perl Harbor to watch the USS Hornet pull in with the quarantine\u00a0 trailer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the time my father was stationed at Tripler Army Hospital at the end of our first tour. The hospital was also the location of the Episcopal services. Normally our Sunday was Sunday school followed by church services, we did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=139\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[62,317,63],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-apollo-11","tag-history","tag-moon-landing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}