{"id":6906,"date":"2012-08-26T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/08\/26\/give-the-moon-a-wink-for-neil-armstrong\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:55:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:55:36","slug":"give-the-moon-a-wink-for-neil-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/08\/26\/give-the-moon-a-wink-for-neil-armstrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Give the Moon a Wink for Neil Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/moonshotonTV.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/moonshotonTV.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> As I&#8217;m sure is the case with many of you, Neil Armstrong was one of my childhood heroes. Neil passed away yesterday. His family made a very nice request for those wishing to do something on the occasion of his passing:<br \/> <span style=\"background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\"><br \/> <\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\">&#8220;For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;\">simple<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\"> request. Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/neilonmoon.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/neilonmoon.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m sure is the case with many of you, Neil Armstrong was one of my childhood heroes. Neil passed away yesterday. His family made a very nice request for those wishing to do something on the occasion of his passing: &#8220;For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/08\/26\/give-the-moon-a-wink-for-neil-armstrong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Give the Moon a Wink for Neil Armstrong&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armstrong-neil","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6909,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906\/revisions\/6909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}