{"id":398444,"date":"2017-11-03T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0660c1a4876ab37c9b51db3859aeda81"},"modified":"2017-11-03T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:13:00","slug":"why-riding-an-elevator-is-like-changing-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=398444","title":{"rendered":"Why Riding An Elevator Is Like Changing Gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/11\/03\/istock-532413706_wide-d92af03e1e0879c2ff154aaef9d01fc9bff605ec.jpg?s=600' alt='Riding in an elevator, it seems like you can suspend gravity for a moment, says Adam Frank.'\/><\/p>\n<p>If you time it just right, tossing a ball in the air as an elevator starts to move, the ball seems to hang in the air for a moment, like gravity had been canceled, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: kostsov\/Getty Images\/iStockphoto)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=561821666' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you time it just right, tossing a ball in the air as an elevator starts to move, the ball seems to hang in the air for a moment, like gravity had been canceled, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398444","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398445,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398444\/revisions\/398445"}],"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=398444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}