{"id":248653,"date":"2016-12-08T17:05:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T21:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=bb61a1bb412afea3dbca628dbbadc926"},"modified":"2016-12-08T22:06:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T02:06:37","slug":"former-u-s-astronaut-senator-john-glenn-dies-in-ohio-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=248653","title":{"rendered":"John Glenn, first American to orbit Earth, dies at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; John Glenn, who became one of the 20th century&#8217;s greatest explorers as the first American to orbit Earth and later as the world&#8217;s oldest astronaut, and also had a long career as a U.S. senator, died in Ohio on Thursday at age 95.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=IGQ9nfz8JpU:QxeXs51_87o:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=IGQ9nfz8JpU:QxeXs51_87o:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=IGQ9nfz8JpU:QxeXs51_87o:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=IGQ9nfz8JpU:QxeXs51_87o:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=IGQ9nfz8JpU:QxeXs51_87o:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~4\/IGQ9nfz8JpU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; John Glenn, who became one of the 20th century&#8217;s greatest explorers as the first American to orbit Earth and later as the world&#8217;s oldest astronaut, and also had a long career as a U.S. senator, died in Ohio on Thursday at age 95.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248653","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248653"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248782,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248653\/revisions\/248782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}