{"id":413,"date":"2005-08-23T09:06:03","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T16:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=413"},"modified":"2005-08-23T09:06:03","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T16:06:03","slug":"into-the-wild-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"Into the Wild Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic has announced that they will follow the suborbital tourist vehicle SpaceShip Two with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightinternational.com\/Articles\/2005\/08\/23\/Navigation\/200\/201097\/SpaceShipThree+poised+to+follow+if+SS2+succeeds.html\">orbital version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It would be fun to retire on the moon.  Unfortunately, I have the dubious priviledge of following in the footsteps of one of the Mercury Seven: like Deke Slayton, I&#8217;m subject to the occasional cardiac irrythmia.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transterrestrial.com\">Transterrestrial<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic has announced that they will follow the suborbital tourist vehicle SpaceShip Two with an orbital version. It would be fun to retire on the moon. Unfortunately, I have the dubious priviledge of following in the footsteps of one of the Mercury Seven: like Deke Slayton, I&#8217;m subject to the occasional cardiac irrythmia. (Hat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=413\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Into the Wild Black&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}