{"id":5601,"date":"2009-10-21T08:09:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T12:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2009-10-21T08:09:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T12:09:42","slug":"you-put-in-other-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5601","title":{"rendered":"You Put in Other Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1957 a young boy &#8211; in an earnest attempt to help his nation enter the space race &#8211; designed a rocket ship.  He drew his design in ballpoint on index cards, and sent it off to some &#8220;top scientists&#8221;. Here is his letter:<\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/rocket.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='rocket.jpg' title='rocket.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>You can read a bit more about Denis Cox and the letter <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeasdaddy.typepad.com\/lifeasdaddy\/2009\/06\/one-australian-boys-contribution-to-the-space-race.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The best part of it is the box with &#8220;You put in other details&#8221;.  I would point out that engineers get these sort of requests all the time.  Oh, they&#8217;re more professionally written and not so crudely drawn, but just about every engineer has had a run-in with a boss or client who mistook a desire for an idea and then asked the engineer to close the gap between the two.  <\/p>\n<p>I had dreams no less audacious at that age, I just never had the gumption to write the letter. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/rampantgames.com\/blog\/\">Jay<\/a> For the Link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1957 a young boy &#8211; in an earnest attempt to help his nation enter the space race &#8211; designed a rocket ship. He drew his design in ballpoint on index cards, and sent it off to some &#8220;top scientists&#8221;. Here is his letter: You can read a bit more about Denis Cox and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}