{"id":785,"date":"2022-09-08T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=785"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:49:13","slug":"785","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2022\/09\/08\/785\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground Control to Major Tom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Oakland-Park-Rocket-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Oakland-Park-Rocket-rotated.jpg 240w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Oakland-Park-Rocket-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption>Going into Orbit!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">This view is from the Oakland Park &#8220;ROCKET&#8221; in Pine Bluff. Yep, I can still climb to the top, but I can&#8217;t get into the cone like a 4th grader. I am fine with the memories I am able to conjure up, like my first Ferris Wheel ride. I also rode on the mini-train&#8230;and fed the ducks, like everyone else. Pine Bluff was HOME for most of my life, being my birthplace. <br><br>I am running for political office for the fourth district US Congress.  I have ties to Pine Bluff, Hot Springs, and Russellville. All of which, now will be sporting Casinos. Yeah, it can turn into a campaign ad, but it is MY site, and I approve everything on it. But, back to the memories.  What are your best ones? <br><br>Do you remember the fishing derby&#8217;s, and the Jaycee Golf Course, when it was GREEN, and SAFE? All of the wooden bridges? Time can even take away our past, unless we make the effort to share.<br><br>Seize the Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This view is from the Oakland Park &#8220;ROCKET&#8221; in Pine Bluff. Yep, I can still climb to the top, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-humor","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/orbit.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}