{"id":152,"date":"2026-04-11T01:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2026-04-11T01:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:04:29","slug":"per-aspera-ad-astra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/per-aspera-ad-astra\/","title":{"rendered":"Per Aspera Ad Astra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nasadonutsmall-1-576x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.5625035531349527;width:410px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nasadonutsmall-1-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nasadonutsmall-1-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nasadonutsmall-1.png 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My partner and I trekked to Krispy Kreme for the first time to get these donuts.  They were delicious!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"851\" src=\"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/icebergoptimized-1024x851.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.2032833961675493;width:503px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/icebergoptimized-1024x851.png 1024w, https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/icebergoptimized-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/icebergoptimized-768x638.png 768w, https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/icebergoptimized-1536x1276.png 1536w, https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/icebergoptimized.png 1890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Iceberg, 2017 <br>Oil on Canvas<br>18 x 30 inches <br>Contact for Price<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you been keeping up with the Artemis II mission?  I&#8217;m so happy the crew made it safely back home!  It&#8217;s been heartening to watch smart, gentle people get along well this past week.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incredible things can happen when knowledge and understanding is given the time, patience, and resources it needs to bloom.  While there are many reasons why ignorance and cruelty seem to reign, I feel this mission proves it doesn&#8217;t have to be that way.  People <em>can<\/em> get along, people<em> can<\/em> learn, and people <em>can<\/em> work towards a common goal.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life can be good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being an artist and being an astronaut sounds equally crazy to people, especially in this economy.  But how can you put a price on what nourishes the soul?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been keeping up with the Artemis II mission? I&#8217;m so happy the crew made it safely back home! It&#8217;s been heartening to watch smart, gentle people get along well this past week. Incredible things can happen when knowledge and understanding is given the time, patience, and resources it needs to bloom. While there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deevaldes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}