{"id":127420,"date":"2017-03-19T07:22:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T11:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=127420"},"modified":"2024-08-13T21:30:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T01:30:34","slug":"johnny-b-goode-in-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=127420","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Johnny B. Goode&#8221; in Outer Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voyager_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Voyager spacecraft<\/a> was launched in 1977 with many objects on board, a floating time capsule, and &#8230; maybe &#8230; a message to whomever might find it on the other end, light-years away. Included was the &#8220;Voyager Golden Record,&#8221; a disc containing music from all around the world. (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voyager_Golden_Record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can see the sort of stuff<\/a> included on the record.) It was meant to be a: &#8220;Hello, there. Here is who we are.&#8221; Chuck Berry&#8217;s &#8220;Johnny B. Goode&#8221; was on that record. <\/p>\n<p>On <i>Saturday Night Live<\/i> in 1977, Steve Martin imagined what the alien response would be to all the material we sent them. <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?attachment_id=127421\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-127421\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C7PEBZQV4AA_NBj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C7PEBZQV4AA_NBj.jpg 538w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C7PEBZQV4AA_NBj-100x74.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C7PEBZQV4AA_NBj-200x149.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C7PEBZQV4AA_NBj-400x297.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Voyager spacecraft was launched in 1977 with many objects on board, a floating time capsule, and &#8230; maybe &#8230; a message to whomever might find it on the other end, light-years away. Included was the &#8220;Voyager Golden Record,&#8221; a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=127420\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,23],"tags":[2711],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127420"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193489,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127420\/revisions\/193489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}