{"id":23807,"date":"2017-01-17T15:39:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T23:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23807"},"modified":"2017-01-17T15:39:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T23:39:40","slug":"moon-walkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/moon-walkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Moon-Walkers With California  Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/astronauts.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>The recent death of Astronaut Eugene Cernan made me think about the 12 men who walked on the Moon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buzz Aldrin<\/li>\n<li>Neil Armstrong<\/li>\n<li>Alan Bean<\/li>\n<li>Eugene Cernan<\/li>\n<li>Pete Conrad<\/li>\n<li>Charles Duke<\/li>\n<li>James Irwin<\/li>\n<li>Edgar Mitchell<\/li>\n<li>Harrison Schmitt<\/li>\n<li>David Scot<\/li>\n<li>Alan Shepard<\/li>\n<li>John Young<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to interview two of the moon-walkers, Buzz Aldrin and James Irwin. I got to thinking how Cernan, Aldrin and Irwin had ties to California, as did many of the others such as Pete Conrad, who lived less than a mile from me and sadly, died from\u00a0a motorcycle accident \u00a0injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Cernan was\u00a0the last man to walk on the moon in 1972&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/astronauts.html\">read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald The recent death of Astronaut Eugene Cernan made me think about the 12 men who walked on the Moon: Buzz Aldrin Neil Armstrong Alan Bean Eugene Cernan Pete Conrad Charles Duke James Irwin Edgar Mitchell Harrison Schmitt David Scot Alan Shepard John Young I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to interview two of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}