{"id":393289,"date":"2017-10-24T18:50:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T22:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=014230930dfb68b4e4831b161ac675e4"},"modified":"2017-10-24T18:50:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T22:50:12","slug":"commander-of-1st-flight-of-space-shuttle-challenger-dies-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=393289","title":{"rendered":"Commander of 1st flight of space shuttle Challenger dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX        (AP) &#8212; Paul Weitz, a retired NASA astronaut who commanded the first flight of the space shuttle Challenger and also piloted the Skylab in the early 1970s, has died. He was 85&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX        (AP) &#8212; Paul Weitz, a retired NASA astronaut who commanded the first flight of the space shuttle Challenger and also piloted the Skylab in the early 1970s, has died. He was 85&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2230,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393289","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\/2230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393290,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393289\/revisions\/393290"}],"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=393289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}