{"id":599558,"date":"2019-03-31T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ae352be74fa6b035cb2ad47bff3a4669"},"modified":"2019-03-31T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T21:17:00","slug":"how-a-cosmic-collision-sparked-a-native-american-translators-labor-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=599558","title":{"rendered":"How A Cosmic Collision Sparked A Native American Translator&#8217;s Labor Of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/03\/25\/img_3589-1-_wide-dfba16391e1cdfb1226bbf34910364e405330727.jpg?s=600' alt='Scientist Corey Gray and his mother, Sharon Yellowfly, are pictured at one of the two massive detectors that make up the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. One facility, where Gray works, is in Washington state, and the other is in Louisiana.'\/><\/p>\n<p>On April 1, astronomers will start two huge machines and continue hunting for ripples in space-time. One scientist gets his mom to translate news of each discovery into her native language, Blackfoot.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Courtesy of Russell Barber)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=706032203' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 1, astronomers will start two huge machines and continue hunting for ripples in space-time. One scientist gets his mom to translate news of each discovery into her native language, Blackfoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599558","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\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599559,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599558\/revisions\/599559"}],"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=599558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}