{"id":143876,"date":"2019-10-07T23:05:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T23:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/archive\/i-l-l-u-s-t-r-a-t-i-o-n-s-space-oddityby-michele\/"},"modified":"2023-01-21T08:52:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T07:52:46","slug":"i-l-l-u-s-t-r-a-t-i-o-n-s-space-oddityby-michele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/i-l-l-u-s-t-r-a-t-i-o-n-s-space-oddityby-michele\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-143876 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/i-l-l-u-s-t-r-a-t-i-o-n-s-space-oddityby-michele\/attachment\/143877\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"77\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/img.united-tuesday.org\/u2dy\/images\/2019\/10\/tumblr-pz11gmvi961yo6dmlo1-1280.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-image-143877\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I L L U S T R A T I O N S <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"look1\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Bowie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nSPACE ODDITY<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"look2\">by Michele Melcher<\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"text3\">\nGround Control to Major Tom<br \/>\nGround Control to Major Tom<br \/>\nTake your protein pills and put your helmet on<\/p>\n<p>Ground Control to Major Tom<br \/>\nCommencing countdown, engines on<br \/>\nCheck ignition and may God&rsquo;s love be with you<\/p>\n<p>Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Lift off<\/p>\n<p>This is Ground Control to Major Tom<br \/>\nYou&rsquo;ve really made the grade<br \/>\nAnd the papers want to know whose shirts you wear<br \/>\nNow it&rsquo;s time to leave the capsule if you dare<\/p>\n<p>This is Major Tom to Ground Control<br \/>\nI&rsquo;m stepping through the door<br \/>\nAnd I&rsquo;m floating in a most peculiar way<br \/>\nAnd the stars look very different today<\/p>\n<p>For here<br \/>\nAm I sitting in a tin can<br \/>\nFar above the world<br \/>\nPlanet Earth is blue<br \/>\nAnd there&rsquo;s nothing I can do<\/p>\n<p>Though I&rsquo;m past one hundred thousand miles<br \/>\nI&rsquo;m feeling very still<br \/>\nAnd I think my spaceship knows which way to go<br \/>\nTell my wife I love her very much she knows<\/p>\n<p>Ground Control to Major Tom<br \/>\nYour circuit&rsquo;s dead, there&rsquo;s something wrong<br \/>\nCan you hear me, Major Tom?<br \/>\nCan you hear me, Major Tom?<br \/>\nCan you hear me, Major Tom?<br \/>\nCan you&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>Here am I floating round my tin can<br \/>\nFar above the Moon<br \/>\nPlanet Earth is blue<br \/>\nAnd there&rsquo;s nothing I can do<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I L L U S T R A T I O N S SPACE ODDITY by Michele Melcher Ground Control to Major Tom Ground Control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on Ground Control to Major Tom Commencing countdown, engines on Check ignition and may God&rsquo;s love be with you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1477,1478,1476,1338,1537,2172,2130,1501,1438],"class_list":["post-143876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-archive","tag-02_22_2022","tag-2022_02_22","tag-22_02_2022","tag-archive","tag-illustrations","tag-michele-melcher","tag-oilpaintings","tag-paintings","tag-united-twosday","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}