{"id":399997,"date":"2017-11-07T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=95986b3903042e749e89d130572cab80"},"modified":"2017-11-07T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:18:00","slug":"nasa-astronaut-dick-gordon-has-died-at-age-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=399997","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronaut Dick Gordon Has Died At Age 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/04\/11\/gordonksc-2009-2919-orig_wide-a3e3d224b030b6512e85ed89b3a97710fe93e781.jpg?s=600' alt='Astronaut Dick Gordon has died. He is shown being inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2009 at Cape Canaveral, Fla.'\/><\/p>\n<p>As a child in the Great Depression, he never dreamed of being a pilot \u2014 let alone an astronaut who would be just one of 24 people to fly to the moon. He had two of the early spacewalks.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/Jim Grossmann)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=517135258' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child in the Great Depression, he never dreamed of being a pilot &mdash; let alone an astronaut who would be just one of 24 people to fly to the moon. He had two of the early spacewalks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399997","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\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400512,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399997\/revisions\/400512"}],"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=399997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}