{"id":420590,"date":"2017-12-19T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=cb8cbe3746a53c0d4070069b753e05ad"},"modified":"2017-12-19T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T14:50:00","slug":"being-different-helped-a-nasa-roboticist-achieve-her-dream-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=420590","title":{"rendered":"Being Different Helped A NASA Roboticist Achieve Her Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/12\/18\/ayanna-1_wide-bdd54a44c3400f95ac54b49f086626179363eefa.jpg?s=600' alt='Ayanna Howard, a roboticist at Georgia Tech, was always interested in building robots.'\/><\/p>\n<p>Ayanna Howard was 27 when she headed her first team at NASA. She talks about feeling like an outsider, and discovering that diversity drives innovation.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Daniela Sherer for NPR)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=569474169' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayanna Howard was 27 when she headed her first team at NASA. She talks about feeling like an outsider, and discovering that diversity drives innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2544,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420590","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\/2544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420591,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420590\/revisions\/420591"}],"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=420590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}