{"id":32261,"date":"2014-02-05T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T21:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=32261"},"modified":"2014-02-05T13:00:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T21:00:54","slug":"stewart-bye-bye-jade-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/02\/stewart-bye-bye-jade-rabbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart: Bye Bye Jade Rabbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32264\" alt=\"StewartJadeRabbit020514\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/StewartJadeRabbit020514.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/StewartJadeRabbit020514.jpg 580w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/StewartJadeRabbit020514-50x19.jpg 50w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/StewartJadeRabbit020514-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/StewartJadeRabbit020514-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/StewartJadeRabbit020514-450x175.jpg 450w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/StewartJadeRabbit020514-50x19@2x.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a short clip seen on last night&#8217;s <em>The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Next Generation<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Patrick Stewart<\/strong> dressed up as the doomed Chinese moon rover Jade Rabbit.<\/p>\n<p>The moon rover Jade Rabbit, launched by China in December, suffered an unexpected technical malfunction and is expected to &#8220;die&#8221; early.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Jade Rabbit tweeted its situation to its fans on <em>Twitter,<\/em> saying goodbye. &#8220;Although I should&#8217;ve gone to bed this morning, my masters discovered something abnormal with my mechanical control system. My masters are staying up all night working for a solution. I heard their eyes are looking more like my red rabbit eyes. Nevertheless, I\u2019m aware that I might not survive this lunar night<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this journey must come to an early end, I am not afraid. Whether or not the repairs are successful, I believe even my malfunctions will provide my masters with valuable information and experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sun has already set here and the temperature is falling very quickly. I\u2019ve said a lot today, yet still feel like it\u2019s not enough. I\u2019ll tell everyone a secret. Actually, I\u2019m not feeling especially sad. Just like any other hero, I\u2019ve only encountered a little problem while on my own adventure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good night, planet Earth. Good night, humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stewart, dressed up as Jade Rabbit, sang a short goodbye &#8220;from the moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #000000; width: 520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 4px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:432785\" height=\"288\" width=\"512\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 4px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"><b>The Daily Show<\/b><br \/>\nGet More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/\">Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyshow\">The Daily Show on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperlinkcode.com\">Hyperlink Code<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a short clip seen on last night&#8217;s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[6845,5363,2440,6842],"class_list":["post-32261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-jade-rabbit","tag-moon","tag-stewart","tag-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32267,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32261\/revisions\/32267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}