{"id":7439,"date":"2018-08-11T12:11:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T17:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/?p=7439"},"modified":"2018-08-11T12:11:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T17:11:48","slug":"brackett-field-rocket-longfellow-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/2018\/08\/11\/brackett-field-rocket-longfellow-space-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Brackett Field Rocket: Longfellow Space Force!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7440\" src=\"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180811hauser.jpg?w=683\" alt=\"Brackett Field Rocket: Longfellow Space Force!\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180811hauser.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180811hauser-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180811hauser-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180811hauser-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Location: East 28th Street and 38th Avenue South<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Sadly, it&#8217;s difficult to capture the rocket all in one shot &#8211; so you should definitely visit. Right now, the 35&#8242; sculpture (actually named Return Journey) is surrounded by lovely flowers, including the tall, orange ones I&#8217;ve only recently learned are Mexican sunflowers. Back to Brackett: our rocket was installed at the park in 1962, and was originally part of the playground equipment. When the park was updated, the rocket slide\/jungle gym was repurposed as the sculpture we see today.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minneapolisparks.org\/parks__destinations\/parks__lakes\/brackett_field_park\/#group_3_7181\">Brackett Field Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Whitney Hauser<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 35&#8242; sculpture (actually named Return Journey) is surrounded by lovely flowers, including the tall, orange Mexican sunflowers. Photo: Whitney Hauser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[61,588,537,585,1394],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}