{"id":451487,"date":"2018-03-13T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ecb8a26288393e200018a62af7dd5747"},"modified":"2018-03-13T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T03:59:00","slug":"stephen-hawking-who-awed-both-scientists-and-the-public-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=451487","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking, Who Awed Both Scientists And The Public, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2013\/09\/17\/stephen-hawking-1_wide-8179067a481e034682593b7ea4a82591c040a07d.jpg?s=600' alt='Stephen Hawking smiles during a symposium in honor of his birthday at the University of Cambridge Jan. 11, 2002 in Cambridge, England. Hawking turned 60-years-old on Jan. 8, 2002 and is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a post once held by Sir Isaac Newton.'\/><\/p>\n<p>Hawking was a theoretical physicist who changed how scientists think about gravity. He also wrote the best-selling book <em>A Brief History of Time <\/em>and lent his machine-aided voice to TV shows. He was 76.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Sion Touhig\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=221053162' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawking was a theoretical physicist who changed how scientists think about gravity. He also wrote the best-selling book <em>A Brief History of Time <\/em>and lent his machine-aided voice to TV shows. He was 76.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451487","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\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451488,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451487\/revisions\/451488"}],"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=451487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}