{"id":267270,"date":"2017-01-27T17:38:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T21:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a89458abf6fa4ba9c47bf1e84c4c6fe1"},"modified":"2017-01-27T17:38:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T21:38:02","slug":"ap-was-there-50-years-ago-ap-reported-on-fatal-apollo-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=267270","title":{"rendered":"AP WAS THERE: 50 years ago, AP reported on fatal Apollo fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDITOR&amp;apos;S NOTE &#8211; Reporter Jim Strothman was alone in The Associated Press office at Cocoa Beach, Florida, that Friday evening, Jan. 27, 1967, covering what should have been a routine countdown test for the Apollo 1 astronauts and listening to NASA updates via a squawk box. Even though it was a ground test, &amp;quot;It was big news,&amp;quot; Strothman, 77, recalled from his Florida retirement home not quite 100 miles away. &amp;quot;It was Apollo 1, man was going to the moon.&amp;quot; Around 6 p.m., &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDITOR&amp;apos;S NOTE &#8211; Reporter Jim Strothman was alone in The Associated Press office at Cocoa Beach, Florida, that Friday evening, Jan. 27, 1967, covering what should have been a routine countdown test for the Apollo 1 astronauts and listening to N&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":515,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267270","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\/515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267271,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267270\/revisions\/267271"}],"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=267270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}