{"id":426538,"date":"2018-01-10T17:34:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T21:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=30091d52f18be9698cac39192c503ec6"},"modified":"2018-01-10T17:34:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T21:34:41","slug":"astronomical-growth-turns-out-to-be-fake-news-says-japanese-astronaut-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=426538","title":{"rendered":"Astronomical Growth Turns Out To Be &#8216;Fake News,&#8217; Says Japanese Astronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/01\/10\/ap_17351200648734_wide-dac7d0b8802d6acbe054d090818ba8abf002635e.jpg?s=600' alt='Norishige Kanai prior the launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket in Kazakhstan on Dec. 17. As is the norm, the Japanese astronaut grew in outer space, just not by as much as he initially thought.'\/><\/p>\n<p>Norishige Kanai said he had grown up to 3 1\/2 inches since arriving in space, sparking worry about whether he&#8217;d fit in the spacecraft home. Turns out, Kanai did grow, just not that much.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Dmitri Lovetsky\/AP)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=577083094' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norishige Kanai said he had grown up to 3 1\/2 inches since arriving in space, sparking worry about whether he&#8217;d fit in the spacecraft home. Turns out, Kanai did grow, just not that much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1987,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426538","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\/1987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426539,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426538\/revisions\/426539"}],"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=426538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}