{"id":160,"date":"2016-12-08T13:26:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T21:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=160"},"modified":"2016-12-08T13:26:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T21:26:47","slug":"hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that I&#8217;ve been a space enthusiast all my life. \u00a0So hearing the news about the passing of John Glenn today simply adds to the misery that I&#8217;ve felt through most of 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-161\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johnglenn-780x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johnglenn-780x1024.jpg 780w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johnglenn-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johnglenn-768x1008.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/johnglenn.jpg 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In college, long before his return to space at age 77, I wrote a report on him for a class called &#8220;The Individual in History&#8221;. \u00a0We had an option to present the report orally to class, which also involved dressing up as the person who your report was on. \u00a0I opted not to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Others can say more about the man better than I can. \u00a0I&#8217;ll just say that he was a hero to me.<\/p>\n<p>Godspeed, John Glenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that I&#8217;ve been a space enthusiast all my life. \u00a0So hearing the news about the passing of John Glenn today simply adds to the misery that I&#8217;ve felt through most of 2016. In college, long before his return to space at age 77, I wrote a report on him for a class &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/hero\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hero&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}