{"id":624160,"date":"2019-07-16T12:07:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T16:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624160"},"modified":"2019-07-16T12:07:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T16:07:30","slug":"ed-dwight-was-set-to-be-the-first-black-astronaut-heres-why-that-never-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624160","title":{"rendered":"Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here\u2019s Why That Never Happened."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a brief moment, the civil rights movement and the space race came together.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/16\/us\/ed-dwight-was-set-to-be-the-first-black-astronaut-heres-why-that-never-happened.html?emc=rss&amp;partner=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here\u2019s Why That Never Happened.<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: New York Times Space &amp; Cosmos&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a brief moment, the civil rights movement and the space race came together.&#013; &#013; &#013; Click here for original story, Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-times-space-cosmos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624160","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624160\/revisions"}],"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=624160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}