{"id":6352,"date":"2012-02-20T06:46:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T11:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=6352"},"modified":"2012-02-22T10:45:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T15:45:32","slug":"50-years-of-americans-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2012\/02\/20\/50-years-of-americans-in-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years of Americans in Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Space Ship One by Ezra S F, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sneezypb\/265550055\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/117\/265550055_46e45c0b98_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"Space Ship One\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a> Fifty years ago today, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Glenn\">John Glenn<\/a> was the first American to orbit the Earth. For some reason,\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Alan Shepard\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Shepard\">Alan Shepard, Jr.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0being the first American in space did not impress me as a kid. Going up and coming back down did not count. Achieving orbit was realer space. Glenn was the American response to\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yuri_Gagarin\">Yuri Gagarin<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0being the first human to orbit the Earth on 12 April 1961.<\/p>\n<p>Well. To me Glenn was the hero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years ago today, John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth. For some reason,\u00c2\u00a0Alan Shepard, Jr.\u00c2\u00a0being the first American in space did not impress me as a kid. Going up and coming back down did not count. Achieving orbit was realer space. Glenn was the American response to\u00c2\u00a0Yuri Gagarin\u00c2\u00a0being the first human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1203,999],"tags":[2380],"class_list":["post-6352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astro-climate-geo","category-build-engineering","tag-posted-2012"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-1Es","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}