{"id":1897,"date":"2005-12-25T23:40:36","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T04:40:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-12-25T23:40:36","modified_gmt":"2005-12-26T04:40:36","slug":"iss-crew-sends-holiday-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=1897","title":{"rendered":"ISS crew sends holiday greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ISS crew sends holiday greetings from space: &#8220;What a wonderful place to spend Christmas!&#8221; That was the word this week from Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur, KC5ACR, and his crewmate and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev on the International Space Station. <\/p>\n<p>Wearing Santa hats, the astronaut and the cosmonaut extend Christmas and new year&#8217;s greetings to everyone on Earth in a video clip available from NASA TV during which they take turns at the microphone <a href=\"http:\/\/anon.nasa-global.speedera.net\/anon.nasa-global\/ccvideos\/jsc\/windows\/holiday05_iss.asx\"    target=\"_blank\"  > http:\/\/anon.nasa-global.speedera.net\/anon.nasa-global\/ccvideos\/jsc\/windows\/holiday05_iss.asx  <\/a> In it, McArthur says that this is his favorite time of year, and he regrets not being able to spend it with his family this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we look down on the earth, especially during this timeof year, it really strikes us how fortunate mankind is to live on such a wonderful, beautiful planet,&#8221; McArthur goes on to say during the greeting, which runs about almost four minutes. &#8220;And also we realize we have great responsibilities as stewards of this planet.&#8221; McArthur and Tokarev will return to Earth in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISS crew sends holiday greetings from space: &#8220;What a wonderful place to spend Christmas!&#8221; That was the word this week from Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur, KC5ACR, and his crewmate&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":612599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ARRL"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}