{"id":95205,"date":"2012-08-27T01:04:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T05:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/95205\/neil-armstrong-biggest-misquote-world-history\/"},"modified":"2012-08-27T01:04:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T05:04:35","slug":"neil-armstrong-biggest-misquote-world-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/95205\/neil-armstrong-biggest-misquote-world-history\/","title":{"rendered":"On Neil Armstrong: The Biggest Misquote in World History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/25.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_m9bsrbjhbS1qbrxslo1_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"239\" \/>Rest in Peace, Neil Armstrong. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\"> Without him, and the thousands of men and women who supported the Apollo program,\u00a0 I might not even be alive here on this planet. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\">My parents were &#8220;progressive&#8221; in their ways back in the 1960&#8217;s, and were wondering whether or not it would be appropriate to bring another life into this otherwise overpopulated planet. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\">The night we landed on the Moon, they decided it was time for another child.\u00a0 10 months later, I was born.\u00a0 This is why my middle name is &#8220;Apollo&#8221;. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\">All this said, I want to say something about Neil Armstrong&#8217;s famous quote.\u00a0 Neil himself has said on several occasions that his actual words when he stepped on the Moon were: &#8220;That&#8217;s one small step for <strong>A<\/strong> man. One giant leap for mankind.&#8221;&#8230; which makes a lot more sense!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\">There is a missing &#8220;A&#8221; in his quote.\u00a0 Yeah, it makes a difference. &#8220;One small step for man&#8221; is essentially a non-sequitar, as it does not differentiate from &#8220;mankind&#8221; in the second half of the quote&#8230;\u00a0 Neil misspoke.\u00a0 He meant to say:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\">&#8220;That&#8217;s one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rest in Peace, Neil Armstrong. Without him, and the thousands of men and women who supported the Apollo program,\u00a0 I might not even be alive here on this planet. My parents were &#8220;progressive&#8221; in their ways back in the 1960&#8217;s, and were wondering whether or not it would be appropriate to bring another life into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}