{"id":48,"date":"2010-06-08T04:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=48"},"modified":"2010-06-08T04:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T04:43:00","slug":"missiles-senor-saguaro-and-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Missiles, Senor Saguaro, and Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We left Benson, AZ (near Tucson) and visited a decommissioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.titanmissilemuseum.org\/\">Titan II missile silo<\/a>.\u00a0 It was a pretty fascinating visit.\u00a0 There is a short movie that talks about the site &#038; the security that was in place when it was active.\u00a0 Then a short tour walks above ground briefly, then to the control room (where they simulate the lights and sounds that would accompany a launch), then across a looooong hallway to the silo site.\u00a0 They point out that this was a &#8220;single-use&#8221; facility, meaning once the missile was launched, they weren&#8217;t going to reload this silo to fire again.\u00a0 So the power of this rocket (that was used to put men and satellites into space) would have destroyed the launch portion of the facility.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/TA3aGx8KL0I\/AAAAAAAAAVM\/C14yNsX_YMs\/s1600\/small4.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/TA3aGx8KL0I\/AAAAAAAAAVM\/C14yNsX_YMs\/s640\/small4.jpg\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/TA3JbXZb79I\/AAAAAAAAAU8\/5wXx7XfUHPw\/s1600\/mini.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/TA3JbXZb79I\/AAAAAAAAAU8\/5wXx7XfUHPw\/s200\/mini.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Then we drove through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/sagu\/index.htm\">Saguaro National Park<\/a>.\u00a0 We were pretty underwhelmed, but they had just repaved the road!<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we drove on to <i>SURPRISE!!<\/i>, Arizona, where Diana&#8217;s cousin &#038; her family live.\u00a0 We had a really good time.\u00a0 They have delightful kids (and they are great cooks).\u00a0 They were generous enough to let us stay the night with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left Benson, AZ (near Tucson) and visited a decommissioned Titan II missile silo.\u00a0 It was a pretty fascinating visit.\u00a0 There is a short movie that talks about the site &#038; the security that was in place when it was active.\u00a0 Then a short tour walks above ground briefly, then to the control room (where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}