{"id":8759,"date":"2020-02-17T16:28:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T16:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=8759"},"modified":"2020-02-17T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T16:28:13","slug":"when-nasa-gave-the-contract-to-both-boeing-and-spacex-spacex-was-supposed-to-be-the-risky-new-startup-and-boeing-was-supposed-to-be-the-safe-nobody-ever-got-fired-for-choosing-ibm-backup-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=8759","title":{"rendered":"`when #NASA gave the contract to both #Boeing and @SpaceX, #SpaceX was supposed to be the risky new startup and @Boeing was supposed to be the safe &#8220;nobody ever got fired for choosing #IBM&#8221; backup option. How times have changed.` https:\/\/t.co\/fo7DmsxXZD #space"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">`when <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NASA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NASA<\/a> gave the contract to both <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Boeing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Boeing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpaceX<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SpaceX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SpaceX<\/a> was supposed to be the risky new startup and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Boeing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Boeing<\/a> was supposed to be the safe &quot;nobody ever got fired for choosing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IBM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IBM<\/a>&quot; backup option. How times have changed.`<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fo7DmsxXZD\">https:\/\/t.co\/fo7DmsxXZD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/space?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#space<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Warren Myers ?? (@warrenmyers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/1229440121872822272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>February 17, 2020 at 11:19AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>`when #NASA gave the contract to both #Boeing and @SpaceX, #SpaceX was supposed to be the risky new startup and @Boeing was supposed to be the safe &quot;nobody ever got fired for choosing #IBM&quot; backup option. How times have changed.`https:\/\/t.co\/fo7DmsxXZD #space &mdash; Warren Myers ?? (@warrenmyers) February 17, 2020 from Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers February 17, 2020 &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=8759\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">`when #NASA gave the contract to both #Boeing and @SpaceX, #SpaceX was supposed to be the risky new startup and @Boeing was supposed to be the safe &#8220;nobody ever got fired for choosing #IBM&#8221; backup option. How times have changed.` https:\/\/t.co\/fo7DmsxXZD #space<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8760,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions\/8760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8759"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=8759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}