{"id":685,"date":"2009-07-20T22:41:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T02:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=685"},"modified":"2009-07-20T22:41:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T02:41:44","slug":"a-silver-moon-in-the-open-skies-and-a-single-flag-unfurled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/20\/a-silver-moon-in-the-open-skies-and-a-single-flag-unfurled\/","title":{"rendered":"…a silver moon in the open skies and a single flag unfurled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apollo 11<\/a> makes me think of Hope Eyrie.<\/p>\n

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Hope Eyrie is a lovely commemoration of the Apollo landing. It’s probably the best known and most celebrated filk song. <\/p>\n

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I love the lyrics<\/a>, especially the chorus:
\n“But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
\nTime won’t drive us down to dust again.”<\/p>\n

This video (a tad cheesy in places) is captioned with the lyrics:
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Each of these videos features the music of Hope Eyrie, written by Leslie Fish & performed by Julia Ecklar. Thanks to the generosity of Prometheus Music, you can download an mp3 from http:\/\/www.totouchthestars.com<\/a> (a fun space-related album from a great filk label).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apollo 11 makes me think of Hope Eyrie. Hope Eyrie is a lovely commemoration of the Apollo landing. It’s probably the best known and most celebrated filk song. I love the lyrics, especially the chorus: “But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. Time won’t drive us down to dust again.” This video (a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[149,151,148,150],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","tag-apollo-11","tag-filk","tag-hope-eyrie","tag-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}