{"id":843,"date":"2019-06-30T09:08:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T14:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2019-06-30T09:08:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T14:08:33","slug":"video-trailer-for-eight-years-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/30\/video-trailer-for-eight-years-to-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8220;Trailer&#8221; for Eight Years to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Eight Years to the Moon&quot; Official Book Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Z5tXFYxEM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video preview &#8212; or &#8216;book trailer&#8217; &#8212; of some of the people and stories you&#8217;ll find in my new book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/162414490X\/\">&#8220;Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions.&#8221; <\/a> It is a tribute to not only the 60 people I feature in the book, but everyone who worked on the Apollo program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This trailer&#8217; includes an amazing song by award-winning singer\/songwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benbedford.com\/\">Ben Bedford<\/a>, and I&#8217;m so grateful to be able to share this song, &#8220;The Pilot and the Flying Machine, Part 1.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story of how this video came about stems from the fact that I&#8217;ve been a fan of Ben for over 10 years now, and when I lived in Illinois &#8212; where Ben is from &#8212; my husband and I would try to go hear Ben sing and play guitar as often as we could. We got to know Ben and his wife\/amazing backup singer Kari and they even came to sing for a backyard concert at our house at a surprise birthday party my husband organized and planned for me (and the surprise was executed successfully, if not magnificently!) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward to March of 2019. We had been living in Minnesota for a few years, and Ben came to sing in Minneapolis. Of course, we attended. He opened the night by singing the song &#8220;The Pilot and the Flying Machine, Part 1.&#8221; Now, I know that I have heard that song many times before. But that night, it seemed like it was a brand new song. I had spent the last several months &#8212; over a year, actually &#8212;  immersed in writing &#8220;Eight Years to the Moon.&#8221; For all intents and purposes, I was living in the 1960&#8217;s and the only thing in my head were all the stories of Apollo I had heard and transferred to paper. When Ben sang that song, I could almost &#8216;see&#8217; this video playing in my head. The song was a perfect tribute to the women and men who made it possible to land on the Moon with Project Apollo.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Making the video wasn&#8217;t quite as easy as how it played in my head, since I have limited video editing experience. But here it is, and I hope you enjoy it! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify\">Here&#8217;s a video preview &#8212; or &#8216;book trailer&#8217; &#8212; of some of the people and stories you&#8217;ll find in my new book &#8220;Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions.&#8221; It is a tribute to not only the 60 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,40,65,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}