{"id":11447,"date":"2026-01-07T11:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11447"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:34:22","slug":"rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/07\/rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago we went to a model rocket launching event called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunar.org\/\">LUNAR<\/a> with 4-H.<\/p>\n<p>Our whole family had a fantastic time at the LUNAR launch! Seeing all the different types of big rockets was a blast. And launching our own smaller rockets (with giant-er engines than in El Cerrito!) was a thrill! The people were all nice and there was good a mix of old and young people. Definitely recommended.<br \/>\nJust the drive there was enjoyable: certainly more country than we&#8217;ve seen in a while. And stopping to see the &#8220;Really Good Jerkey&#8221; guy was fun.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going, remember that it can be cold so bring layers and BYO lunch.<br \/>\nThe Hobby Lobby in Stockton was about 10 minutes off our route and had rocket engines, and getting lunch at the Togo Sandwich Shop was good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Abigail-at-the-LUNAR-Launch-pad-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Abigail-at-the-LUNAR-Launch-pad-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Abigail-at-the-LUNAR-Launch-pad-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Abigail-at-the-LUNAR-Launch-pad-600x596.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Abigail-at-the-LUNAR-Launch-pad-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Abigail-at-the-LUNAR-Launch-pad-768x763.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Abigail-at-the-LUNAR-Launch-pad-1536x1527.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Abigail-at-the-LUNAR-Launch-pad-2048x2035.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Abigail-at-the-LUNAR-Launch-pad-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1080px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-11447-1\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1920\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LUNAR-model-rocket-launch.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LUNAR-model-rocket-launch.mp4\">https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LUNAR-model-rocket-launch.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago we went to a model rocket launching event called LUNAR with 4-H. Our whole family had a fantastic time at the LUNAR launch! Seeing all the different types of big rockets was a blast. And launching our own smaller rockets (with giant-er engines than in El Cerrito!) was a thrill! The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11451,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447\/revisions\/11451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}